Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under any circumstances. But a better explanation appears to spring from the emphasis on "sentenced". It is generally true that the undergraduate does not labor hard enough at college. But he will not do otherwise until the idea that any labor on courses comes in the nature of a jail sentence is eradicated...
...Schireson entered Manhattan in search of other wealthy clients with unsatisfactory noses. His hotel telephone went into action immediately, hopeful clients flocked. The News learned of his advent, ferreted out his past, found him to be a notorious quack with numerous jail and workhouse record and no New York State medical license, crowned him "King of Quacks," strewed its picture and news sections with the acrid headlines of a public-spirited exposé, "drove Schireson out of town...
...ducked; on the other hand, even a judge cannot duck a lady without a ducking stool; unless he is willing to throw her in bodily--a thing which this magistrate's chivalry absolutely forbade. After hours of mental unrest, he compromised with a suspended sentence of six months in jail, and a fine of three hundred dollars...
...some time his daily diary has been smuggled out of jail and published in one of the London papers- the kind of paper, which, if the English chewed gum, would be read by 500,000 gum-chewers. Some weeks ago an injunction put a stop to this performance...
...Bottomley formerly published John Bull, which is more anti-American than Mr. Hearst's newspapers are anti-British. He defrauded the public by huge lotteries. As he went to jail Justice Darling, the wit of criminal trials, is said to have remarked : " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy...