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...there with your clients, you ?" Peering from a courthouse window, watching the motorcycle-escorted cars start on their dash for the Tennessee State line, was the rouged face of a white female named Victoria Price, 22, whose insistent tale of a nine-Negro rape in an Alabama freight car in March 1931 had made the Scottsboro Case an enduring stink in the annals of Alabama law (TIME, April...
Into Riverside County Superior Court went one Marjorie MacDonald, 19, seeking annulment of her marriage with Anstruther MacDonald. She charged him with rape and also with incest, for Anstruther MacDonald is her father. He and her mother had separated when Marjorie was 3. She had not seen him again until she was 12. When she was 14, her mother having died and her foster-father remarried, she went to live with Anstruther MacDonald. Within a year she was not only his daughter but his mistress...
Marriage Revealed. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 31, U. S. N., divorced husband of Thalia Fortescue Massie of Hawaii's celebrated rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.); and Florence K. Storms, 29, Seattle stenographer, daughter of Chewelah, Wash.'s postmaster; fortnight ago; in Seattle...
...Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...
Zampillaerrotationist Sirs: ... I have noticed the word "rapist" in TIME occasionally. A rapist would I should think be one who advocated, practiced or devoted himself to rape through conviction. One who has raped or is raping would I imagine be a raper. Probably they don't care what we call them-just a question of accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams...