Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuan & Taso. Tuan Chi-jui, "the Chief Executive of China" (since the office of President is vacant), had either been imprisoned while his rival Taso Kun (the last President) had been released from jail; or Tuan's personal soldier- police were still protecting him and keeping in confinement such of his enemies as were in their power...
...policemen, thousands of witnesses, had seen him do it; he too knew that he was guilty. He had broken an edict relating to decency. No escape was possible. Already burly bluecoats were nudging through the crowd; while the onlookers hooted, mooed, clapped and guffawed, they led him off to jail. For this coin-biter was H. L. Mencken, journalist; by accepting the 50¢ as payment for a copy of the green-covered magazine, The American Mercury, of which he is the editor, he had broken an edict which barred that magazine from sale in Boston as "indecent...
...look upon the foolish and unlawful measures they are now taking as a hopeful sign for the strikers. Even with their leader Weisbord in jail, they have proved by their peaceful but firm adherence to the strike that they will never give in until their demands...
...Judge English said: "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." This remark is variously interpreted as 1) humor, 2) strenuous effort to get justice in an uncivilized community, 3) tyrannous conduct...
...What advice of his personal physician is Calvin Coolidge believed to disregard? (See THE PRESIDENCY.) 2) Who sailed quietly indeed, nearly unnoticed, on the Majestic? (See THE CABNET.) 3) "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." Who said? (See THE CONGRESS.) 4) At what trade did Mussolini once labor? (See ITALY.) 5) Why did Colonel Mitchell fly 37 times in an hour? (See ARMY & NAVY.) 6) In what play did Alice Brady "thrust herself ahead of all other players, male and female, for the season...