Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having looked for but failed to discover a refrigerated slaughter chamber where the Butcher might have worked, he made friends with a circle of human scum in which two of the identified victims had moved: Mrs. Florence Polillo (No. 4), a prostitute, and Edward W. Andrassy (No. 2), a pervert. From their friends Pat Lyons learned that one Frank Dolezal knew them both, that he was with the Polillo woman the night police believed she was killed. Frank Dolezal drank a good deal, was fond of knives. Block-jawed, muscular, he used to be a butcher, now laid bricks...
...achieve a proportional effect on a five-for-one basis, U. S. arms appropriations would have to be $14,740,000,000 a year. If this discourages businessmen about the prospect of armament, it may also encourage them by the assurance that U. S. National Defense expenditures will not pervert the U. S. to a totalitarian, guns-instead-of-butter economy...
...duty is to save unless in saving we pervert. When all the world can see what sensible legislators in such a contingency would wish that we should do, we are not to close our eyes as judges to what we must perceive as men. This need is all the greater in fields where the Law is in a state of transition and readjustment...
Margo Dowling, on the other side of the fence, starts as a child actress, survives a nearly disastrous marriage to a Cuban pervert to become successively show girl, mistress, Hollywood extra and at last a queen of the screen...
Emphasis of Hail, Caesar! is less on politics or persons than on war. Author Pratt denies that Caesar was ever a pervert, even for policy; he mentions Caesar's mistress Servilia only in passing. For Caesar's rapid imposition of New Deal legislation on Rome he has nothing but implicit praise. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to a play-by-play account of Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics...