Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin with Actress Elisabeth Bergner, later in London with Hollywood Veteran Anna May Wong, and it appeared briefly in Manhattan.) It tells of a teahouse girl who marries a mandarin, only to fall afoul of his jealous No. 1 wife.This witch poisons the mandarin, bribes a judge to convict the girl of the murder and the theft of her own baby. At length she is rescued by a reforming young Emperor, who as a prince had met and loved...
...Quentin in 1926, that Valtin's real name is Richard Julius Herman Krebs. He wrote that he left the jail "in the first days of December, 1929." The only man who fitted Valtin's description of himself and who left San Quentin at that time was Convict Krebs. Charges on which he could be deported were his admittedly illegal entrance, his former membership and activity in the Communist Party in Germany...
Expired. In Columbia, La., William Heard got a letter from a Little Rock, Ark. paper saying his subscription would expire March 8. Responding that he was under sentence to hang March 7, Convict Heard concluded: "In view of the fact that I do not know my future address I am afraid our pleasant relations must be severed...
Heudi Ledbetter, ace negro blues singerr, known to many as "Leadbelly," the only twelve-string guitar player in America and one-time convict, stole the show when he sang last night at a benefit performance for Spanish relief in the Cantabrigia Club. A packed room clamoured incessantly for more of his husky voiced "hot ones...
...hands, and blazed away. Photographer Jones dodged back behind the wall-but not until he had snapped another picture of Ed McNew. One of the most remarkable newsphotos ever taken, staring straight into the muzzle of a gun, it was evidence enough, thought Howard Jones's editors, to convict Bondsman McNew of assault with intent to kill...