Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspirators mentioned the name of General Franz Schill. The Court was aghast. Respected General Schill but recently retired from the gendarmerie after 35 years of faithful service. His son is a lieutenant in the army. Nevertheless the Court ordered him arrested, held. Last week he sat in a cell, his head bowed in shame. The door rattled open; two of his former officers entered, stood stiffly. General Schill rose to greet them. One of them laid something on the table. Then stiffly they filed out, leaving the door open. The general looked at the open door, then at the thing...
...print in their columns wild and derogatory letters signed by fictitious names without first ascertaining the identity of the writers. Because in at least one such case he was not shrewd, Editor John Wesley Mapoles of the Hopewell (Va.) News last week found himself sharing a jail cell with a prominent Hopewell bootlegger...
Traveler In Richmond, Va., one Henry Perkins, jobless hitchhiker, begged a night's lodging at a police station. Given a cell, he spread newspapers on the floor, opened an expensive suitcase, dressed himself in silk pajamas. Then he took from his suitcase a small spray gun, sprayed the cot thoroughly, went...
Paperhanger & Mrs. Riley were sentenced to two years' imprisonment, fined $250 each. Then they were taken to a basement, locked up whimpering together in the court house's temporary cell...
...breeze to the doldrums of the Victorian stage; it was as new and exciting as Dr. Bell's contrivance that two years before had set the Philadelphia centennial by the ears. And the audience of 1878 found Ralph Rackstraw's imprisonment doubly hard, for "no telephone communicates with his cell...