Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case dragged along in the courts, and "Governor" Taylor kept out of jail. One day in May the Supreme Court of the U. S. made a decision.* Mr. Taylor paced up and down in the District Attorney's office at Louisville, waiting for the news. Suddenly he cried: "I must go to my home in Butler county.'" and rushed out of the room, his black coattails dancing behind him, his black "Colonel's" hat flapping with the speed...
Soon one of the parents, Vladimir Orlovsky, an aviator, went home and destroyed his three-year-old idiot son. With lightning swiftness a Soviet court found him "technically guilty of murder," sentenced Aviator Orlovsky to six months in jail, then suspended the sentence, allowing him to remain free...
...president and leader of the opposition. Only one opposition vote was cast, because adherents of that party strictly obeyed Don Belisario Porras when he exhorted them to boycott the polls last fortnight after liberal police had seized fifteen opposition leaders, one a retired capitalist, and popped them into jail as "revolutionaries...
...manner ill befitting a virgin from Louisiana. Repulsing them, she finds temporary shelter in a vacant Park Avenue apartment, at the suggestion of a Negro maid who knows her own Negro maid. Jewels are stolen from the apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn...
...snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced the thief to jail...