Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beats his wife in any one of 47 states. He is sent to jail. There he loafs. The maltreated wife is without support. He comes back, beats her again...
...48th state, Delaware, the wife-beater is taken to the jail or workhouse yard, is stripped to the waist in public view, is tied to a post, is lashed with a tough-thonged whip once, twice?30 stinging times. He goes home, beats no more, is no more beaten. For wife-beaters, the whipping-post is the unbeatable punishment...
...Bridge of Sighs. Another bad loss was reported by observers of the opening performances of this picture. The plot reveals an idle youth who steals some money. His girl's father is accused and sent to jail. They go to a lot of pretty tedious trouble to get him out again...
...jail forever before I will give the key of my design to that committee...
Gentlemen: I guess you don't know what it means to wander in a foreign land without TIME. I'll just as soon be in jail. We Americans over here pass it around until it looks like something that has been under the carpet since the Spanish-American War. It brings Home to us and drops it in our laps. HOMER CROV...