Search Details

Word: convict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...night club employe, no proprietor. Said the prosecuting attorney in his summation: "She has conducted herself like a lady in court. There has been no wisecracking around here. But this woman, with her God-given talents, has sold her birthright for a mess of pottage." The jury refused to convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight fisticuffing championship and the girl he loves, is made pleasant and almost credible by the acting of William Haines and by Joan Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Scout hatchet, drinking cups, sleeve less sweaters, knickerbockers, an oiled sheet (for a tent), a fox terrier (for luck). No man molested them - neither bandit, desperado, nor escaped Siberian convict. They lived on the land, eating black bread and water, berries, mushrooms, honey, milk. After five years in Russia (they were working on "educational-economics" at famed Kuzbas Colony, some 2,000 mi. east of Moscow when young Spring came to their feet) they returned to Manhattan bearing only a gift towel. They care absolutely nothing for property. Said Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell: "Once when we slept in a natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...East View Penitentiary, East View, N. Y., last week arrived Hugh Finn, 55, to begin a six-months' sentence after his 49th conviction. Convict Finn, no minatory criminal, has served sentences only for minor offenses like malicious mischief, petit larceny, abusive language, disorderly conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Immediately "Convict Hansen" began to snoop on Warden Snook, to send out secret reports on the prison to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of U. S. penal institutions (as well as of Prohibition prosecutions). Finally he was transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary, and thence released on Mrs. Willebrandt's orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Snook v. Snoop | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...from Mrs. Willebrandt. arrived at Atlanta with commitment papers, giving his name as "John Montana." Supposedly he had pleaded guilty to a charge under the motor vehicle interstate theft act and had been sentenced to three years in prison by U. S. District' Judge Ben Hough in Cincinnati. "Convict Montana" also snooped on Warden Snook. Soon more special orders from Mrs. Willebrandt arrived, ordering "Montana's" release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Snook v. Snoop | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | 359 | 360 | 361 | 362 | 363 | 364 | 365 | Next