Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Boss of Manhattan became Convict No. 78,719, was given a job as a gardener in the prison greenhouse. Fellow prisoners treated him with respect. Jimmy Hines, whose grandfather had been a Tammany captain under Boss Tweed, and whose father had been a Tammany captain under Boss Croker, thought of his conviction as political persecution. He began writing a book in which he pictured himself as a victim of injustice...
...spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...face seemed older as he rose to hear the verdict. ("Guilty of murder in the second degree") which ended the homosexual's trial for strangling his wife. Lonergan faced a sentence of from 20 years to life. The state had tried for a first-degree (electric chair) conviction. Before the jury reached its decision, cigar-gnashing Lonergan Counsel Edward Broderick explained why he had not put Lonergan on the stand: "I saw the weaknesses in the state's case." Lonergan's conviction was also a legal milestone in the life of Wayne William Lonergan, the convict...
...standard way of attacking abortion is to arrest and convict the operators. This is expensive and has never brought any decrease in the number of illegal operations. Everybody knows that abortions will decrease when pregnancy is free from financial worry and social ostracism. But no one has yet figured out how to achieve those freedoms...
...underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged and then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal...