Word: rappings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...devised by Temple Collegiate's proprietor, William Franklyn Wolsey, 56, who calls himself Archbishop John I of Vancouver. Born in Saskatchewan, where he quit school after the sixth grade, the bearded divine once served two years in a Milwaukee jail for abandoning his four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter at the Savoy Hotel...
Doing a six-month stretch in Tennessee's Davidson County workhouse on an inciting-to-riot rap, Yankee Segregationist John Kasper, 30, fresh from a five-month respite in federal stir for contempt of court, was contemptuous of his treatment by the feds, laudatory of his local jailors. Observed he: "You know exactly what is expected of you at the workhouse. You eat, sleep and work, and that's about all of it. The federal system has too many bureaucrats. I always had the unexplained sense of great eyes watching me. And they go in for psychological brainwashing...
...Carole Tregoff ("No one taking a long look at her would doubt that she was more interested in men than sculpture, soccer or Scrabble"), aseptical-y criticizing the jury ("It contains in the alternate section a lady I would not care to have judge me on a jaywalking rap"), offering advice on uxoricide ("The best way to murder your wife is to have a few drinks with her, pull out your revolver and shoot her, then head for the nearest cop and hand him the gun"), and from first to last reporting the trial in breezy, firehouse prose...
...Courtney, bright young state's attorney (now a Chicago circuit judge), directed the case of The People of the State of Illinois v. Roger Touhy, and won Roger Touhy's undying enmity. Through two long, sensational trials and until his death, Touhy claimed that the kidnap rap was a frame-up by the Capone gang and corrupt officials to put him away permanently. His sentence: 99 years...
With the U.S. Communist Party and its onetime boss, old (68), grey Earl Browder, both at a decrepit pass, a 1952 federal perjury rap against Browder was dropped by the Government. One of the Government's key witnesses was dead, the other "unavailable...