Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tender Trap. In Reno, lacking 50? of the $10 he needed to bail out his wife, who was jailed on a drunkenness charge, Marvin Wheeler light-fingered some brass plumbing fixtures from the police station, sold them to get the half dollar and freed his wife, was jailed himself for petty theft, was still locked up three days later when his wife was jugged again for drunkenness...
...capitalistic formality of paying. Naturally, Nina couldn't understand a word. And no one in the store could understand Nina. So the whole argument was moved to a police station. There Nina was charged with shoplifting, ordered to appear in court next day, and released on ?5 bail...
Three months later the true robbers were caught and Lyon was released on bail. He lived under a cloud for seven long years, finally brought suit for malicious prosecution against his accusers, and won $9,000 damages. With his new wealth, Lyon went to one of the most fashionable painters in town and commissioned a portrait. He had no wish to be portrayed as a gentleman, he informed the startled John Neagle, but as a workingman. Yet the canvas must be splendid. It must show him lifesize, laboring honestly at his forge. And in the background must be seen...
Small Voices. In Miami, caught making white lightning while free on bail after an earlier arrest, Moonshiner Lonnie Hastings mourned: "They is so much noise about a still, what with rats rustling around in the bushes and birds singing in the trees, that a feller can't hear them federal agents when they come around...
...Fixers. In Huntsville, Ala., after appearing at the jail while a friend arrested for highway intoxication was bailed out, County Commissioner James H. Turner was locked up on the same charge, managed to bail himself out a few hours later, just before the friend reappeared to free him and was jailed a second time for highway intoxication...