Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...
...Catholic church, in front of all the island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing on the six-months' jail sentence he drew on his next trip for hitting a white bully in a waterfront saloon...
Like his fellow-islanders, Terangi could not stand confinement, and he wanted to get back to Marama. He broke jail so many times that he became a legend. Each time he tried to get away he added from two to five years to his sentence. Eight years had passed before he hit on the scheme of pretending to hang himself so that the jailer would come in and bring the keys. He killed a sentry with a blow of his fist, paddled an outrigger 600 miles back to his own atoll. He had just found Marama again when a hurricane...
...Orleans, police arrested for vagrancy a white-bearded Finn, sentenced him to jail for ten days. Asked his name, he answered: "Maillilaigeyeayaegyaye Edeyueayearyilo Anlilyllayio...
...Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...