Word: raped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companions in coin-clutching, each hoping to be made his heir, come to his bedside bearing gifts and ready to commit other offices of friendship. Volpone's assistant in deception is the smart and fluttering Mosca; together, they are reaping a rich harvest until Volpone attempts to perform rape upon a friend's wife, sent to him for no better reason. Tried in court for this offense and adjudged innocent, Volpone tries another wily and audacious rascality, one which leads to his own undoing. Mosca, always a step ahead of his miserly master, makes himself Volpone...
Most effective of all was vice president Philip Murray of the United Mine Work ers, a youthful person with a quiet voice, who talked for three hours to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee about injunctions, evictions,, bloodshed, rape, coal prices and the cost of living. When Mr. Murray was through, no non-union mine operator answered him. The Committee voted to recommend a Senate investigation...
...Johnson's "Life of Pope", contains many letters, documents; and portraits of Pope and his contemporaries; a volume containing 18 letters written by Pope to William Fortescue, between 1730 and 1739; the first edition of the four parts of "The Essay on Man," the first edition of "The Rape of the Lock", and "The Dunciad...
...cult. The members were Europeans, mostly Germans. During the Reformation they favored Lutheranism as opposed to Roman Catholicism. The "society" was popularly supposed to take its name from one Christian Rosenkreuz, who was supposed to have discovered Oriental secrets on a pilgrimage. Writers, such as Poet Pope in The Rape of the Lock and Poet Adamson in The Muses' Threnodie used Rosicrucian paraphernalia-supernatural beings, alchemic formulae, astrological signs-to embody moral teachings. The ritual of Rosicrucianism today is guarded from uninitiates. There is in the U. S. a "Rosicrucian Fellowship" whose president, a Mrs. Max Heindel of Oceanside...
Antonio Pollaiuolo's painting to be exhibited in the Fogg Museum is entitled. "The Rape of Deianira." The description of the painting in the Catalogue of the Yale Jarves Collection is as follows...