Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the control of the wisdom of the average man than under the rule of that type of Intellectual to whom originality is more meritorious than wisdom. The average man in this country has no sympathy for a criminal and when serving on a jury will not hesitate to convict the fourth time with the resulting life penalty provided the evidence is clear. Crime can be suppressed when it is necessary and the measure is one of the best passed in recent years for the limitation of robbery. Although the average man is quiet and does not talk so much...
Window Panes. Nothing is so utterly glum as misery in Russia or so inscrutable. An intimate glimpse into a peasant household reveals a husband who slashes a great deal with his whip, a wife who suffers commensurately, a son stricken dumb. Comes an escaped convict with Love in his heart. He tarries awhile in this hovel of Muscovite anguish to bring light into the souls of the people, and by token of a dusted window, into the room, the main scene of sorrow. Apparently, this constitutes a symbol. It is in the same vein as the Servant in the House...
Died. William Maxwell, 88, "oldest convict in the world"; in the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Fifty-five years ago, aged 33, he defended a woman's good name by killing a dance-hall roisterer. Other roisterers, irate, hung Mr. Maxwell to a tall tree. Forthwith, a sheriff arrived, cut him down, took him to jail. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; refused several offers of parole...
...Louis Glassman, perpetrator of 110 burglaries and several jail breaks, asked for a Bible in the Springfield (Ill.) jail last week. None could be found on the premises; jailers rushed to a neighbor- hood mission, satisfied the convict...
...handsome fugitive convict whom Monica "understands" is, of course, proved innocent. Nor does she more than "understand" him, and he her, though other possibilities, and a deep-dyed hydraulic. company villain, stalking various tracts of real estate, suffice to complicate the prospects of Hero Anthony Garland, cultivated consumptive, until the last paragraph, where man and woman throb together on a mountain beholding the usual "promise of another...