Word: jailbird
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Great Britain had suffered most up to last week. Mrs. Kate Meyrick, 60, night club mistress, jailbird, mother-in-law of lords, died last week. Dead too were Aviatrix Winifred Spooner and more than 1,000 others in England & Wales within the week. Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow, London suffered severely. London had 1,100 postal workers sick abed. Leeds curtailed its street car service and could not get its gas meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause...
Jail Delivery. Under the widest amnesty granted in Germany since the Revolution of 1918, more than 10,000 political jailbirds - mostly Communists and Fascists-were let out of the Fatherland's jails on Christmas Eve or earlier in the week. This liberal gesture, designed to win popularity for the Cabinet of essentially unpopular and aristocratic General Kurt von Schleicher, was completed in able Santa-Claus fashion by giving each jailbird enough money to pay his carfare home and buy a Christmas dinner. Prisoners arrested in summer were given a winter overcoat, mittens...
...ceasing entirely to be Helen Hayes and becoming instead the woman whose life story she portrays, Cinemactress Hayes makes the familiarity of the story double its sadness. As a young girl, she is gay and tender; as a jailbird, she chatters to a friend (Marie Prevost) about her son; as a prostitute, she squeals for money in barrooms and drums up her trade without ever making the error of playing for the audience's sympathy. The picture is well directed by Edgar Selwyn, splendidly acted by the rest of the cast?particularly by Jean Hersholt as an old physician...
Triumphant, ex-Jailbird Alcala Zamora quickly formed a Republican Cabinet with himself as Prime Minister, called out of hiding a batch of 100%, Republican Ministers...
Gandhi, for the Mahatma, for St. Gandhi, for Jailbird Gandhi not thou- sands but millions of individual Indians are taking individual beatings which they could, escape by paying what His Majesty's Government call, quite accurately, "nor-mal taxes." Physical extortion, even of taxes, is in law virtually everywhere a crime. Briton Brailsford reports that the Indian agents of the British Government have pursued tax evaders out of British India into the native State of Baroda and beaten them there. This is a crime for which the Man of the Year in Yerovila Jail at Poona is to blame...