Word: cells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn, charged with contempt of court for disregarding a summons in an action by one Andrew K. Reynolds of Washington, D. C., to collect $280, an alleged debt. Mr. Wellman was released only when Banker-Explorer H. Murray Jacoby of Manhattan, an admirer, sent him a check to end what...
...West New York, N. J., one Paul Bethamen, weaver, husband, father, awoke in a room he had never seen before. It had bars. It was a prison cell...
...Shut up," growled a sour voice from the next cell...
Last week jaded Gothamites sweated, many publicly collarless, others privately naked. In front of a cell-like apartment house one Garth Anderson, Negro, 23, sat dull-eyed, knowing not, caring less that Miss Josephine Smith, 20, white, likewise exuded many a salty droplet some miles away. Languor fell upon them. They sighed, yawned-screamed with fearful pain until summoned surgeons set their respectively dislocated jaws...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...