Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atheist Editor Ernest V. Sterry of the Christian Enquirer went to jail at Toronto last week, as he expected he would do when he called God "an irate old party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry...
...were shifted to the commerce of the street for the benefit of the Hearst International Reel Corp. . . . it is expected that the syndicate . . . will pay the fine." The fine was $5,000, imposed on Harold Elliston, onetime managing editor of the Baltimore Neivs who also faced a day in jail. Managing Editor Earl C. Deland of the Baltimore American was given a day's jailing; also City Editor Harry Clark of the News, and Photographers Sturm and Klemm...
...acting of Dorothy Burgess who strives seriously to smile success through this her first musical comedy role; an excellently trained chorus; the song " 'Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated...
Suppose that Wisconsin decides it is time to drop Minnesota, all that will be necessary is for the Wisconsin paper to print the jail record of Joesting, Nydahl, Almquist, Hanson and Hyde. Or if the Gophers are getting tired of going to Madison the Gopher publication can print pictures of a flock of Wisconsin men pulling taffy...
...often said that should the Savior appear before an average U. S. police judge and profess the doctrines attributed to him in the Bible he would be clapped into jail as a "Communist...