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...talked about the charges. What were they? When Muncie found out it began wondering if this grim, sombre Methodist minister were another Elmer Gantry. A pretty girl of the congregation, Helen Huffman, 18, friend of one of the Conway girls, had accused Mr. Conway of having attempted to rape her in his automobile one afternoon last December...
...with his drab, machined life he quits work, wanders out into the country. Going through some woods, he sees a Negro lynched. A farmer gives him a job. He casts lustful eyes on the farmer's wife, lets his imagination run away with him and tries to rape her. Her scream brings the old farmer, sends the hero flying. A vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit and goes back to town. A strike is on; the police break...
...Paul Hymans, Foreign Minister of Belgium, looked down his long straight nose at the Representatives of 55 states. As their chairman he had just called to order the Assembly of the League of Nations, meeting last week to consider the report of its Lytton Commission on Japan's rape of Manchuria - Japan contending that Manchuria was willing...
...went home. Today he is damned, even by the now enthusiasts for Dryden, and not even with faint praise. The Vagabond in fact is making a pilgrimage to Sever 11 where Professor Greenough is speaking on Pope, principally to see a man who has actually read not only the "Rape of the Lock" and the "Dunciad," but even "Windsor Forest" and the Epistles. The occasion will be a salutary reminder of several important platitudes about time...
...pages, eleven poems. Poet Masefield telescopes the Iliad's 24 books, hitting such high spots as Paris' rape of Helen, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia for a favorable wind, and focusing on wily Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...