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...filed the bars of her cell, sneaked out to the yard. There she dug up a ladder, fabricated for her in the prison blacksmith shop by love-struck convicts and buried by an infatuated guard. She nimbly scaled the wall, let herself down the other side by a blanket rope. Waiting in an automobile to carry her away, prison officials believed, was one David Minton, a recently paroled prisoner who had fallen under her spell...
...perform ten feats of strength, speed and agility in one day is hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven contestants at the day's end, but for one man up went great cheers which he, wrapped in a blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession and he won it again, hands down, as everyone knew he would, beating his own carnival record in spite of bad conditions...
...third convict, James Raymond, made a similar confession to Warden Preston E. Thomas shortly after the rioting which followed last spring's conflagration. Harrowed by remorse, he asked to be placed in solitary confinement. There he hanged himself with his blanket that night. Another prisoner was placed in the same cell and warned that the dead face of the suicide would stare down on him. Next morning this man, James Maloney, admitted having supplied candles to start the blaze, denied knowing what they were to be used for. He will be indicted after the State of Ohio has dealt...
...unattractive dog: six years old, fat, phlegmatic, sleepy. Once he was more charming, in fact his name originally was Charming Billy.* It was probable that he would be sent to the country. It was not true that he had had his own bed and table: just a cushion and blanket...
Answer: While there is reason for treating Prohibition as a red herring to drive the people of the U. S. off the main trail, it may be faced. Progressive opinion is against any blanket repeal of the 18th Amendment which does not substitute a rational system of public control over alcohol...