Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner was the first performance over than authorities, who, from reading the late Jack Conway's review in Variety, had gauged the substance of the play, appeared with their cohorts and dragged all the female impersonators and the few remaining members of the cast to a nearby jail. This, it was supposed, would end the silly business; but counsel for Mae West secured an injunction which allowed the performance to be given twice more before it was attacked again. The second arrests were more complete; even Author Mae West was indicted for disorderly conduct and the play...
...detectives, twelve patrol men. For hours Mr. Monaghan was a menacing interlocutor; it was then that he lost sleep. Several of the catechized broke down, one wept convulsively. All were arrested on bribery and extortion charges. Toward midnight they lined up in the City Hall corridors. They marched to jail, ironically led by Capt. Cohen. Amid the boos of jailbirds, the catcalls of more obvious and unashamed criminals, they were debadged...
...Sicily, across a stormy sea. They might share Plato's dream of a fair, impossible republic and they might share too his memory of Socrates, a strange fellow who was continually talking and who, before he drank poison bravely, looked out of the windows of his jail at the hills of Athens...
...scare heads said STINNES IN JAIL. That was only literally true. In a clean Berlin cell sat only Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr.−not his late father STINNES, the titan who turned his coal and iron into fleets of ships, miles of factories, myriads of newspaper presses−all, all HIS (TIME, April 21, 1924). In those mighty days STINNES was the Despot of German industry and the Bogey Man of Europe...
...When men extort eight per cent for loans on absolutely good security, somebody ought to go to jail, beginning with the responsible respectability in the Federal Reserve...