Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail cell at Terre Haute, Waldo Frank found a microcosm of the U. S. jungle: "In the Terre Haute jail I had our world with me: the atavistic, careless and abnormal; the future, striving to be; the dolorous, dangerous present. I felt at home there...
...alley is the Vieux Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed glasses paid his franc and then...
...judge prepared to sentence Helen Love to from seven years to life in prison, she returned to her cell, told a jail matron: "I can sit in this chair, or lie down on this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...
...hospital to see if he could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that Mrs. Love's condition was "mental," but that she was not "insane." Nevertheless, Judge Smith took a look at the sleeping prisoner, declared: "The court doubts the sanity of the defendant." Therewith he postponed sentence until three more psychiatrists could pass...
...Coiba Island, Panama, penitentiary guards for the second time caught Convict Herman Kahn counterfeiting U. S. $1 and $10 bills in his cell...