Word: rape
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Woods, who produced, "The Rape of Belgium," once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...gets. To argue that we must not hate because hatred will delay pepace or interfere with the beating of 75's into plough-shares when the war is over is to argue for exactly the sort of official, manufactured, governmental conscience that made the German people acclaim the rape of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania...
Baedeker, in his guide-book, calls Mrs. Gardner's "the choicest collection of art in America". It includes Raphael's Portrait of Fedra Inghirami, the "Rape of Europe," by Titian, called by Rubens "the first picture in the world," and best known of all, the "Portrait of Thomas Howard," by Rubens. Botticelli, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giorgione and Cellini, are among the Italians represented, and there is a splendid group of canvasses by Rembrandt. This opportunity is one of which students who wish to broaden their interests should not fail to take advantage. One seldom is able to see in America...
...copy Mr. Fields pasted a long letter from Lincoln, written at Washington on February 15, 1848, discussing the right of the President to act without consulting Congress, in time of war or threatening international complication. The other volume of Pope is a copy of the first edition of the 'Rape of the Lock,' in its contemporary panelled calf binding and larger than the copy in Mr. Lefferts's collection of Pope's works, which likewise now belongs to Harvard. The Fields copy lacks two leaves, but it has on a corner of the title page the name of a former...
...School Christian Association. "Homicide, Assault and Battery, and Rape," as seen in the New Testament." Professor G. F. Moore...