Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Captain Sellner produced a bedspread and a movie camera, entertained the court with scenes of garbage-dumping in which Mr. Genazzi played the leading role. The court gave Mr. Genazzi 30 days in jail...
...this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns...
Charles E. Brickley (famed Harvard football captain, fullback and dropkicker of 1914) was sentenced to 15 months in jail for running a bucketshop (TIME, March 12). The judge, the prosecuting attorney, the assistant court clerk and Mr. Brickley's counsel were all Harvard men. Said Mr. Brickley to the judge: "I want to thank you for the fairness and consideration shown me during my trial. I am very sorry that anyone lost money through my trading in the stock market, and if the wheel of fortune ever turns my way again I hope to be able to pay back...
Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting. Act IV (stupid): how to get an electric chair ready and a last-minute confession...
...Bill Harrigan of Kansas City was too fat to be placed in jail. He was freed because no cell could be found...