Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their recent hot debate on the abuse of clapping the King's subjects into jail for debt (TIME, March 11) crowned last week by a remarkable circular letter to British magistrates from Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour, who urged greater leniency from the bench toward debtors unable...
...street near his home, boasted that he would make the number 1,000. Ota's score reached 15. Rolling up his sleeves, he accosted his sixteenth, crouched, took hold and suddenly spun into the air. Artist Ota crashed, dazed, to the ground, was picked up and taken to jail by the sixteenth, a Tokyo police department jiu-jitsu expert...
...discovered that she had been seduced by his nephew, the night before he went to be killed in France, he paid her the unwanted compliment of repeating his vow in her favor. But when she had the spirit to receive a suitor who had been in jail for his pacifist opinions. Stoner refused to give him houseroom for more than an hour. But Jocelle went ahead and married him anyhow. Finally she got the old man to admit that he had forgotten what his wife looked like, and he gave in as gracefully as his old bones would allow...
...jail the Corsican killer alternated between periods of wild religious raving, and periods of deep silence during which he knitted a great deal, made himself a number of jumpers. In the opera house courtroom last week Prisoner Spada was as mad as ever...
...distinction that he was the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Chief Secretary and that today his influence in Canton is worth a $200,000 bribe proffered him last year by the Chinese Government (TIME, July 23). It would be cheaper to jail or exterminate Mr. Hu, but he is careful to live in British Hongkong, with strapping Sikh police posted day and night before his strongly built house, all doors and windows of which are barred with elaborate iron gratings...