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...widespread labor shortages, American women have by now made inroads into virtually every occupation. A survey of local newspapers reveals advertisements by women blacksmiths, gunsmiths, shoemakers, shipwrights, tinworkers, barbers and butchers. The Virginia Gazette recently carried a notice of an arrest of a runaway slave signed by "Mary Lindsey, gaoler" of Henrico County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Remember the Ladies | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...President Leonard Hoar set a precedent by calling in the local gaoler to settle a school problem. An undergraduate was "publickly whipped" by the outsider despite the stormy protest of a frightened student body and an indignant alumni...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Grim Police, Gay Students Battling Since 163 | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

Haratune finally escaped his beautiful gaoler, found his long-lost wife, and began a three-year trek across Russia and Siberia back to the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Escaped Massacre by Hiding Among 10,000 Corpses and Playing Dead for Four Days | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...asthma foretells the end of sunshiny days and the onset of fog and mist and damp. An example of what I mean is Lord Beaverbrook. Until a few days ago, he was still a free man. Today asthma has laid its harsh hand as firmly on him as a gaoler receiving an old prisoner back after a brief release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...frenzy of outraged sensibility. Napoleon's honor was touchy, and Sir Hudson Lowe, the British Governor, was a choleric, literal-minded martinet. The French and their warders were at loggerheads from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience and a gaoler from taste." Napoleon and his entourage shut themselves up in Longwood, their uncomfortable quarters high up in the hills, while Sir Hudson fumed in Jamestown. Both parties kept up a constant barrage of verbal and written insults, orders, recriminations, complaints. In order to annoy Sir Hudson and make it appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: St. Helena | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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