Word: convict
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...Take your hands out of your pockets!" ordered a convict...
Dubbed an "unnecessary frill" by the Colony's critics, the prison debating team last year trounced M. I. T. Later in the season the convict debaters will wage verbal war with Brown and M. I. T. among other opponents. All the debates have been at the prison...
...Young, with the aid of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Archibald Campbell Colston, transformed one pseudohermaphrodite by grafting a pair of testicles taken from a healthy 18-year-old Maryland convict a few minutes after he was hanged. The cure lasted for three years, when the patient lost his self-confidence, regained his effeminate obesity, disappeared...
...Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known for that infamous conduct rather than for anything else he ever did, if he ever did anything worth while...
...Hollywood, ex-Convict Jeareld McDonald was hired as technical adviser for gangster films, decided he wanted to act, secured a "bit." A friend saw the picture, told Mrs. Estelle O'Neal whom he had married in 1927. Mrs. O'Neal had Jeareld McDonald arrested for bigamy because later he had married Mrs. Katherine Mandel without bothering about a divorce. Jeareld McDonald went back to jail for ten years...