Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which took place at the Central Square Station, a Harvard sophomore was arrested and taken to the Central Square Headquarters charged with disturbing the peace. At 1.30 o'clock last night, friends of the prisoner were trying to raise bail to keep him from passing the night in a cell...
...Alma Rubens (Humoresque), lately released from the California State Asylum where she had been committed as a narcotic addict (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), made a redebut at a Hollywood night club. Said she: "Toward the end it became terrible. I placed dope on a pedestal. . . . I stayed in a cell with a mad woman for more than two weeks. . . . I'm cured...
Everything depends, of course, upon the point of view. Soon after his crime young Princip, whom the Austrian Imperial Prosecutor grimly called "too young to hang," was locked up under a sentence of "solitary confinement in a darkened cell for life." As was intended, he withered in the damp dark, died of consumption...
Mobbery brewed in Jackson, Ky., after Chester Rugate, tenant farmer, had murdered prosperous, farm-owning Lawyer Clay Watkins, his landlord. At 2 o'clock Christmas morning lynchers broke into the county jail, roped the jailer to his bed, with his keys opened Fugate's cell. Accompanied by scores of assistant assailants they rode Fugate out of town, black-jacked him, trampled on him, drilled his body with 13 bullet holes, pitched him over a 20-ft. embankment...