Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town of Darwin an Arnhem tribesman named Jacala, serving a jail sentence for spearing a native chieftain, could see from his cell window the neon lights of a movie theater. When he was released, Jacala went back to his tribe, 400 miles away, still wondering about the movies...
...Cell Life...
...articles he wrote on Spain's cruelty to Cubans was credited with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine's reception, and she and Decker were later feted at the White House...
...light of the changed world was the human value of man himself. What that value was in 1941 no book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope of the world: "Decency-something your kind will never...
Hermit hoar, in solemn cell...