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...Reasons given for lynchings have been: murder, rape, "incendiary language," unpopularity, talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...
...seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength, and no irony was lost in the trial for rape and the money-won acquittal...
Obviously guilty of murder, of rape, Negro Shepherd would eventually have been executed by the State of Mississippi. But a hanging did not appeal to the People of Mississippi. It arose, it grasped rifle, shotgun, pistol, it rode on horses by night and it took Negro Shepherd away from the State of Mississippi and dealt with him after its own fashion. In Mississippi, Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took...
Beggars of Life. This story of Jim Tully's concerns hoboes. It opens with a murder. A lecherous farmer took Nancy (Louise Brooks) out of an orphanage. For two years he had "pawed over her with his hands." Finally at breakfast one day he attempted to rape her, but she pulled a shotgun from the wall, slew the farmer, protected her honor. She is assisted in her getaway by a casual young hobo (Richard Arlen) who, cinemaddicts are to believe, persevered in a platonic companionship. At a jungle (hobo hangout) her sex is discovered when the Arkansaw Snake (Robert...
...preacher should secure metropolitan employment as a taxicab driver and remain so employed for a considerable period, he would undoubtedly witness exhibitions of: drunkenness, misery, wantonness, gaiety, sickness, love. Were he fortunate, he might also witness exhibitions of: murder, robbery, rape. Since preachers sometimes have cause to mention vice, it is well for them to have some knowledge of its nature and consequences. Thus it might be clever for some preacher to perform for a time as the driver of a taxi. This was what the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Manhattan Presbyterian pastor...