Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serenaded him with Hail to the Chief, a number usually reserved for the President. Friends and ward heelers greeted him deliriously. Jim viewed with emotion a big white cake with red letters that spelled out: "Happy Birthday to Our Beloved Boss." The boss had already celebrated the occasion in jail...
Beginner. In Laredo, Tex., Ernesto Aripe, 12, jailed for pulling 17 burglaries in a week, escaped after robbing the jail storeroom of $875 and a sack of jewelry...
Shopper. In Oklahoma City, Jail Trusty Robert Schiebert, picked up by police ten weeks after he had disappeared for a moment to get some cigarettes, explained that he was "still lookin' for them cigarettes...
...tall, dapper, 43-year-old lawyer who had spent his life in the Republican movement, bombing British armored cars while still a boy, commanding a brigade of the Irish Republican Army while still in his teens. A guerrilla, journalist and orator, he had been in jail often, studied law on the side. In 1937, still wanted by the police, he had succeeded in sitting for his law examinations at Dublin's University College and taking a degree with honors before making his getaway. He was Maud Gonne's son, Sean MacBride...
...Meegeren was actually tickled to get only one year in jail. "Two years," he told a reporter, "is the maximum punishment for such a thing. I know because I looked it up in our laws twelve years ago, before I started all this. But sir, I'm sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years...