Word: rapist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Zampillaerrotationist Sirs: ... I have noticed the word "rapist" in TIME occasionally. A rapist would I should think be one who advocated, practiced or devoted himself to rape through conviction. One who has raped or is raping would I imagine be a raper. Probably they don't care what we call them-just a question of accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams...
...Missouri. Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. "Hanging parties" were held in many a home. Sheriff Thompson's 17-year-old daughter sneaked out against her mother's orders to attend one. As before the execution of Rapist De Boe, one motorist was in such a hurry to get to the scene that he cracked up, killed himself...
...time the crowd learned that Sheriff Thompson could not nerve herself to her job. Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing to say. "Man, he's there!" whispered an admiring spectator. The hot-dog sellers fell quiet...
TIME, April 29 (National Affairs, "Death of De Boe") unfairly calls Mr. Phil Hanna "a professional executioner . . . from Illinois," unkindly cuts his visage three-quarters away in the accompanying picture of ''Robber-not a Rapist'' De Boe. No professional, no executioner, Mr. Hanna is a gentleman farmer who lives on land that has been in the family since 1808. . . . He has assisted at some 65 hangings (he does not recall the exact number), has never sprung a trap. Years ago, the revolting sight of a public strangulation as a result of an incorrectly tied noose...
...tell you I was a robber-not a rapist," the 23-year-old culprit shouted. "I haven't got justice." He looked down on his trembling old father, whom someone was holding up, and on his red-eyed sister, who had spent three days trying to get Governor Laffoon to pardon her brother. "I don't see that woman around here. Where is she at? Is Mrs. Johnson in the crowd?" Nine times De Boe called for Mrs. Johnson, the Iuka merchant's wife he was convicted of attacking when he robbed her husband's store...