Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Mr. Anthony's grammar is frequently dubious, and his off-the-air accent is close to pure Broadwayese, he is convinced that he is far ahead of his professional rivals. Since he began, he has passed the ex-convict Marion Sayle Taylor (The Voice of Experience) and left his "Good Will" predecessor A. L. Alexander far behind. Mr. Alexander is now running something called the Board of Mediation over Manhattan's WHN, and Mr. Anthony regards any comparison between him and the mediator as preposterous. As a matter of fact, he thinks he is essentially more experienced...
...sponsoring a Finnish convict's libelous book about his adventures in a Swedish prison, Sweden's Supreme Court sent Mme. Elsa Kleen Moller, whose husband is Minister of Social Affairs and a potent Social Democratic Partisan, to jail for two months, clapped on a 6,500-krona fine...
...being proved quilty of perjury, the dapper little popinjay was dragged off to King's Bench Prison at Southwark. There his incessant demands for scholastic and clerical privileges fell on deaf ears; and, within sight of John Harvard's old home, this college's first President died a convict...
Guard Troy Wade dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...
...long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter as the Christlike convict. Always in danger of seeming preposterous, Cinemactor Hunter manages to be natural and supernatural at the same time, compassionate without becoming mawkish...