Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about his findings, and its members, absolutely unable to think of anything to do about it, offer to put him in jail...
...lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods! It is no disgrace in the United States for a banker or a businessman to go into bankruptcy three or four times...
...Andrew's (No. 20 City Hall Place). Every Sunday at 2:30 a. m. Rev. William E. Cashin, formerly chaplain of the Tombs jail, says a special mass for Roman Catholic printers from the newspaper shops in the neighborhood...
Only the plea of the 'jury which convicted him saved Rev. W. F. Larowe, in Savannah, from doing three months in jail. He was put on probation. The prosecuting attorney called the court's attention to the fact that, since his arrest, the minister had already spent some time behind bars. The jury recommended "extreme mercy...
Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, "a religious maiden," and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in their possession. The gaoler, after examining them for evidence of witchcraft, clapped them into jail, where they lay five weeks. Then the religious maidens were shipped back -to England...