Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outline hovering nudes on the ceiling with pistol shots. At 15, he was arrested for throwing eggs at his teacher during an art student strike; the teacher wouldn't let them paint outdoors. "Since then," he murmurs, lowering his bright green eyes, "I've been taken to jail nearly 70 times...
Siqueiros was a hell-for-leather Communist of the old-fashioned sort, and could never keep his eagle beak out of trouble: jail was always interrupting his painting. He is still a devoted party liner, though the Communists expelled him in 1930 for visiting his girl friend when he was under orders to hide out. They thought that the girl friend was being watched by the police. The police were on his trail anyway, replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when...
...quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera's friends, and they took him to Mexico City in style. The other was a delegation of police, and they took me to jail...
...Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first-and unsuccessful-attempt on Trotsky's life...
...done by some men from the College and from Dartmouth who spent a night in a Northamption jail for want of a better place to sleep after their Smith girls had been safely tucked in. They decided it wouldn't happen to them again or to anyone else, for that matter...