Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Russians came they opened the jail doors to all political prisoners. Mindszenty hitchhiked back to Veszprem. Soon the Vatican gave him a new see, Esztergom, which carries with it primacy over all others in the land...
...once remarked: "I would rather be in jail in the U.S. than live in Italy...
...while her husband lectures to Cummings about the Cause-is a queer mixture of horror and humor in upper-crust Communist social life. The other episodes and scenes seem to have grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm, the American correspondents, the travelers ("Russia is simply wonderful so immense so throbbing earnest vital people so happy everywhere thrilled with communism building socialism") and the overwhelming sense of relief upon reaching Constantinople...
Wayne is so purified by all this experience of birth and death that he takes Baby and heads for the saloon at New Jerusalem. There, as he knows he must, he meets the stern but just sheriff, a short jail term, and, of course, the banker's daughter-who seems willing to wait for him. The sheriff (Ward Bond) gets temporary custody of Baby, a foresighted arrangement, since with all the sentiment lavished on him, the tot is clearly going to grow up to be a very tough citizen...
Sherlock Doyle. In 1903, he was obliged to revive Sherlock Holmes-and the scenes at the railway bookstalls, says a contemporary, "were worse than anything I ever saw at a bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...