Word: clinked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War II, a political fling that landed him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison for three years while U.S. officials tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him as a war criminal. Protesting his innocence, Sasakawa hired a big brass band to blast martial songs as he strode proudly into the clink. Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American guard threw a copy of LIFE into his cell. In it, he saw an advertisement for a motorboat...
Nope. We were booked for disturbing the peace--I had not said a word the whole evening--and thrown in the clink next to a wino drying out. What's a jail without a drunk in the next cell...
...chatted easily with a cast of public people that included royalty and burlesque comics. Once given the choice between Lyons' 14-hour-a-day schedule or six months in jail, a group of wags-including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott-unanimously chose the clink...
...hour comedy purportedly inspired by the 1949 classic Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film of the same name. But the first two episodes did little to advance the cause. In the première, the woman lawyer was so emotionally shattered by having to spend a single night in the clink that she could not open her mouth in court the next day. (Hubby came to the rescue, naturally.) The next week she "proved" her right to wear a pantsuit into a fancy Los Angeles restaurant (a right won long ago by other pantsuited Angelenos) by forcing her husband to wear...
...nation's country-music capital, Nashville is more used to the twang of fiddles and guitars than the clink of archaeologists' trowels. But the city is considerably excited by its tiger in the bank (which lies only five blocks from the Grand Ole Opry House). Spores, for one, is so sure that there may be other tiger and human remains about that he has taken to prowling construction sites in downtown Nashville in hopes of finding more fossil beds. The First American National Bank, too, is cashing in on the find ("the bones of an unsuccessful borrower," goes...