Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successfully defended Errol Flynn on a charge of statutory rape and Charlie Chaplin on a Mann Act charge...
...talk later with News-Herald Reporter Hal Malone, the Archbishop got down to brass tacks. Said he: "Such demonstrations are accountable for the lust and rape that we read about almost daily . . . You would have to be an iceberg to be in the same room with a semi-nude woman and not be subject to immoral ideas...
...product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating idea or feeling can possibly be behind them. The reader, no matter how patient, can never find out. Slobbering Sadist. This Very Earth runs its weary preordained course of rape, murder and stupidity without once arousing the slightest emotional response. The dialogue bears no living relationship to the character speaking it, and the characters are all pressed from the same worn Caldwell dies: the lazy, immoral man; the cheap woman who sells herself cheaply; the slobbering sadist who beats...
...instead of a simple distinction between premeditation and impulse, the amendment set up some more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...
...easy; it burrows clinically into some untidy closets of human guilt and frustration. In his first book, he managed to put most of his readers in a dipsomaniac's shoes. In his second, on homosexuality, he was nowhere near so persuasive. Now he has written about a grisly rape-murder case to prove that, vicariously at least, there is something of the murderer in everybody...