Word: dungeon
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...Dungeon Treatment: Girls have been confined in two compartments, each about six by eight feet in size. They look like shed roof hen houses and are built against the wall of a rather dark attic in the top of the boys' building. The only air that can get in comes in directly through a space covered by chicken wire at the top of the front. It is about six inches by eight feet. One cannot see his hand in front of him when inside. There is no furniture except a blanket and pail in a corner. Girls have been...
...locked up in the very dungeon which once held Discoverer Christopher Columbus was the interesting fate, last week, of Señor Federico Velasquez, defeated candidate in the Dominican Republic's recent Presidential election...
...Treasury. Haughtily the prisoner refused. "I will not accept the Treasury post," said he, "while I am held in jail on the ridiculous charge that I am a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionist!" And sulky Señor Velasquez sat down in the dank depths of his historic dungeon...
...experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same kind of torches, as though their supplies for the attack on the palace had been issued by a circus property-room. Silliest shot: John Boles getting Laura La Plante out of the dungeon...
...name which chimes fearfully in the ears of malefactors, which calls up to all U. S. citizens a vision of bleak grey prison walls, is not a "bad" prison. From the Indian "ossine ossine"? "stone upon stone"?came its name, appropriate to the old damp-walled dungeon beside the river, with cells 7 ft. x 3 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 6 in., built in 1825. But today most of the inmates live in new cell blocks on the hill above the Hudson River. The sizeable cells are equipped with modern sanitary apparatus. In each...