Word: gaol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar Wilde-TIME, Sept. 27), Actor Michael Redgrave, Poets T. S. Eliot and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Lord Cecil Douglas, grandson of the unforgiving ninth Marquess of Queensberry, whose grim insistence that Wilde go behind bars was the prime force that landed him, convicted of sodomy, in Reading Gaol...
...What had this kindly father done to deserve the obloquy of his own sons? Until he was 18 years old, Vyvyan never knew. By his own devices and the careless words of elders, the little boy learned to suspect in time that his father had been sent to Reading Gaol, but for what crime he could only guess unassisted-and the guesses were dark beyond belief. Cyril, the elder, got a glimmer of the truth from a glance at newspaper headlines, but even he felt it necessary to keep the facts from his brother. All the boys knew, as they...
...Huskies jumped to a quick one-gaol lead on a freak bounce past Chaune Flynn at 1:44 of the opening period. Second on a pass from Manchester at 12:30, and a three man play, Bray to Patton on the blue line to Wood next to the cage, put the varsity ahead at 1:42 of the middle stanza. Ned Bliss passed out for number three to end the period...
...trial under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. His first trial resulted in a hung jury. At the second, he was found guilty and sentenced to two years at hard labor. A year after his release from prison, he wrote and published anonymously the famed Ballad of Reading Gaol...
...land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...