Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sloop Afonso de Albuquerque and the destroyer Dāo. Immediately Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar opened fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted the sailors to commit a crime and receive a punishment which...
Sentenced to 15 days in the Los Angeles County Jail for reckless driving was reedy William Wallace Reid, 19, son of the late sporty Cinemactor Wallace Reid. Said young Reid, surprised at the sentence: "I'd earned $25 doing a high dive in an M-G-M picture, and I brought it with me. I thought I'd be fined...
...comprehensive array of goods described and pictured within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair...
Corney suffered when he visited his friend in jail, absorbed his grandfather's hatred of England and its ways, but his heart was not in politics. On a trip to London, Elsie got away from her brothers, who were all priests, and became his mistress. But her father refused to let her marry one of the shiftless Crones. When she became pregnant she almost went crazy while Corney made plans that came to nothing. At desolate, run-down Youghal Corney decided to confess to her father. Thereupon she tried to drown herself, brought on a miscarriage that killed...
...District Jail Washington...