Word: malefactors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember the living conditions in our time? Unless you were a malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a Freshman' that a daily bath should be an innocent pleasure, not a morbid family pride. It was not either of these for most of us--it was an unattainable luxury...
...once the courts have not been led astray by that ingeneous artifice known as criminal insanity, and have convicted a malefactor who well deserves it. The so-called Lone Wolf's plea of insanity has been rightfully denied, and the court has imposed a just sentence...
These misdemeanors are laid to the malignant influence of the spirit of Don Juan, summoned by the inquisitive Duchess in her spiritualistic seances. Later, the specific malefactor is determined to be the astral body of a bashful young professor who is engaged in teaching the daughter of the household poetry...
...erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last scene where he unexpectedly returns, all in one piece, in time to witness the confounding of his malefactor by three of the latter's former apprentices...