Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator occasioning the deaths of thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number of years he spent in jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive reigns the head of the Sovereign on coins and stamps faces alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left...
...this hideous experience, Chaplin goes wild. First he races about the factory pulling all the switches in sight. Next he goes outdoors and scares a lady by waving wrenches at her because the buttons on her dress remind him of the nuts on his assembly belt. Chaplin goes to jail where he enjoys life until, by helping quell a prison mutiny, he wins a pardon. Faced once more with the task of confronting a world where even less eccentric and more ambitious individuals are having a hard time, he experiences a series of disasters...
...department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
...this time Chaplin has made the acquaintance of a Gamin (Paulette Goddard). She has patched up a shack where both can live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have...
...aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...