Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomaston, Me., 230 inmates yelled and banged their cell-doors from 8 p. m. to 2 a. m. in the rambling old red-brick Maine State prison. Their grievance: They had been limited to two outgoing letters per week because a favorite pastime had been writing letters, sometimes 30 or 40 per man per day, to names obtained from matrimonial agencies...
...motor southwest from Chicago, when you are almost within sight of Joliet, a big sign appears on the right of the highway: STATEVILLE. Behind it rises a broad, bare hill across whose desolate skyline stretches a wall. Above the wall rise four great, drab cheeseboxes. These are the cell blocks of Illinois' model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year...
...days later, with all the Stateville prisoners locked up on bread-&-water (plus one sausage per day), a legislative committee began to investigate the outbreaks. Still smouldering, the inmates of one cell-block staged one last demonstration to interrupt the proceedings. From the walls the legislators watched the men being driven back to their cells...
...Nice, French Riviera, deep-dimpled Mrs. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, the young U. S. citizen who slew her elderly Philadelphia husband (TIME, March 23), was loudly cheered by 1,000 Niceois when she went to court to plead for bail. Bail was denied. The prisoner was returned to the cell which she shares with a French Negress charged with murder, was told that she may have to spend the Summer there awaiting trial...
...Alexis Carrel, 57, 1912 Nobel Prize winner, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: $1,000 and the highly esteemed diploma given biennially for cancer research by Dr. Sofie A. Nordhoff-Jung, 64, assistant in gynecology at Georgetown University. Dr. Carrel has devised methods of growing living cells in glass flasks where he can take micro-cinemas of their life. Results have been fundamental revelations on cell physiology, normal and malignant...