Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...India has arrested and imprisoned Gandhi for criminal breeches of law. They now permit him to hold cabinet councils with his fellow conspirators in jail, while the great governing organism, upon whose calm strength the lives and livelihood of uncounted millions depend, wait cap in hand outside the cell door, hoping to wheedle a few kind words out of their prisoner...
...Manchester guardians were guilty of unbelievable cruelty toward their charges. On one trip to the school Governor Tobey locked two trustees in the solitary confinement coops provided for inmates. When they were let out, one of the trustees admitted that he would prefer suicide to remaining in the cell...
...James Flintham How, vice president and general manager of the Wabash Railroad. Young How entered Meadville Theological School, Unitarian institution at Meadville, Pa. Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell. He wanted to live the life of Christ, he would say. He entered Harvard, where he played football and baseball. His mystic generosity continued. He zealously tried to found a monastic order, The Brotherhood of the Daily Life. He dressed as a laborer and preached to mid-day crowds...
...Manhattan, Commissioner of Correction Richard C. Patterson Jr. while inspecting a jail, was asked by the keeper what charge had brought him in. "Prowling," answered Commissioner Patterson. ''Get in there," said the keeper, locked Commissioner Patterson in a cell where he stayed for half an hour...