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...carrying on with an aging and odious magician (Vincent Price). The rest of their story bears some relation to Othello: a profoundly depraved man tortures a profoundly simple one with lies, half-lies and ugly possibilities about the young girl until the anguished hero, his trust destroyed, kills his tormentor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

MacLeish's inquisitor was Missouri's lame duck Bennett Champ Clark. MacLeish's offenses were the sins of liberal pamphleteering and rhetorical poetry. In the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room, he gamely, lamely countered the poking and prodding of his tormentor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Ordeal of a Bard | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...third incident was rumored to have occured when several students were walking home, and one was lagging behind. According to the stories, he was called to by a man, who brought up two companions when the student acted as if he would turn on his tormentor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVOID FIGHTS, STREET RIOTS, HANFORD SAYS | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Forest Gillum, 56, of Omaha, wore a huge Willkie button through the Presidential campaign. When Willkie lost, exultant Democrat Abner Tunspall, 35, razzed Forest Gillum mercilessly. One day frantic Forest Gillum turned on his tormentor, cut his throat. Last week Gillum, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to two years in prison. Said the judge, "He just reached the end of his resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Opinion on Willkie | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

TAMPA, Florida--The worm finally turned. Casper Milquetoast rose up and smacked down his tormentor. In other words, the much-maligned National League, playing with verve and precision triumphed over the swaggering American Leaguers today in the first spring all-star game for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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