Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert O. Moseley), 32, cinema and TV actor (Wild Bill Hickok): Gail Russell, 29, onetime cinemactress (The Lawless); after five years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
When Commander Mackenzie got wind of Spencer's fantastic threats, his imagination boiled over. His ship, he wrote, was about to become "a lawless wanderer upon the deep." He clapped Spencer, Cromwell and Small in irons. But, he felt, the crew's every move showed "sullenness" and "portentous" looks, and four more "mutineers" were put in irons. Spencer and his two cronies were executed without trial, hanged from the yardarm, and ceremoniously buried...
...from stuffy country gentleman to rollicking bohemian in gold earrings. "The line of lawyers from which I spring weakened apparently by repetition, seems to have exhausted itself," he once explained, "and in a final spasm brought forth a kind of recidivist, throwback or survival of an imaginary golden and lawless age . . . But there is no need for alarm: the monster is amenable and responds to kindness...
...with Associate Justice Harold Burton agreeing: "We have here . . . powerful and offensive control over Irvine's life . . . The police devised means to hear every word that was said in the Irvine household for more than a month . . . A sturdy, self-respecting democratic community should not put up with lawless police and prosecutors...
...deeply religious man, Pyle declared himself "unalterably opposed to the wicked theory that every maturing child should be forced into multiple wifehood with the sole purpose of producing more children to become more chattels of this totally lawless enterprise." Possibly the Governor was thoroughly astounded by the fact that a three year old Short Creek boy was the great-great-grand-uncle of a three year old neighbor. Whether or not the tots liked the idea, the women were certainly happy. When informed that they were to live with only their legal husbands, seventy-five of them fled to Utah...