Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Curtis Stephenson, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1924, is in jail for life. He attacked a girl...
...advice therein offered. The expense, however, is only apparent. No one ever thinks of paying his tailor out of his allowance. The correct thing is to let the bill run, and not pay it at all, --payment encourages impudence: but if the tradesman grows clamorous and threatens jail, all you have to do is to plead minority, and let your parents and guardians settle the matter at their convenience
...Joel D. Kerper who peddled drinkables to prominent Philadelphia clubmen & tycoons. Many of these flawlessly tailored citizens appeared to testify. 'Legger Kerper went to jail for 15 months, paid a fine...
...race between the car and the train is one between train and airplane. In sound, Comedian Tommy Dugan is the screen's first stammerer. Best shot: the line of taxicabs bringing Antonio Moreno's Scotch up from the boat. Best loud-line (Dugan) : "I was in jail but I got pppp ... I got pppp . . . par . . . they let me out for a while. . . ." Best criticism (Variety) "Can go into any wired house for a week...
William Evans, publisher of the Valley Vigilant, weekly newspaper of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was sentenced last week to three months in the county jail, fined $100. His offense: criminal libel of a County Commissioner during a political campaign. Libel convictions are rare...