Word: celles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead of night, Jailer G. F. Dabbs answered a knock at his door. A mob of men threw a blanket over his head, took away his keys, locked him in a cell. In a caravan of automobiles, the men carried the Negro boys away into the night. When the sun came up, deputies found their bodies hanging from the trestle...
Five of the Gestapo's hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author...
...beginning, Hollis was the meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of the early faith. Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
...never know" Mama had chosen to keep quiet, and to ruin her daughter's happiness. But to bring up all this now would invalidate the insanity plea and Bethel would hang. So Lerryn kept quiet, went insane herself ("she remembers nothing but is quite happy in her little cell"). Some readers may find this book morbid...
Bubble Bust. In Great Falls, Mont., prisoners at the county jail wanted to contribute their cell bars to the scrap drive, wrote the county commissioners: "Return our hacksaws - and we will tend to the rest." The commissioners contributed the saws instead...