Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peter Ibbetson meets her again when he is a thriving young architect, she the Duchess of Towers. Nudged by the coincidence that both have the same dreams at night, they fall in love once more, again with tragic consequences when Peter Ibbetson goes to jail for murder. In this crisis their faculty of "dreaming true" is convenient. Divided by day, they spend their nights together, roaming the happy landscapes of illusion until both die, almost simultaneously...
After conviction and completion of a jail sentence, he goes back to his vegetable cart. Finding himself despised by the world, he becomes disillusioned, gives up his cart, and takes to drink...
With pistol shot abruptness Italian "food profiteers" were whisked to jail, average Rome food prices downed slightly during the week, butchers were ordered to close shop Tuesdays and sell no beef Wednesdays, and II Duce rapped that "Fascist discipline" will keep Italians from overeating. Famed Count Volpi, stabilizer of the lira, again moved in Government circles which he left after one of the Dictator's orders to "change the guard" (TIME, July 16. 1928). Italy's tempo last week was definitely staccato-and the King came out openly...
...jail last week, so his Rome press friends wrote, sat an embittered anti-Fascist correspondent, International News Service's Guglielmo Emanuel. The least of Newshawk Emanuel's incessant conversational jibes has been to refer to the slightly exophthalmic Dictator as "Banjo-Eyes." After ten years in Rome for I.N.S., this Mussolini-baiter was arrested by the Italian counter-espionage service as an alleged spy in Britain's pay who cleverly masked his activities by working for William Randolph Hearst...
...Lawrence County, N. Y. jail. Sheriff McCormack, unable to exterminate the jail's hordes of cockroaches, offered convicts 10? bounty per 100 roaches turned in. With nothing else to occupy their spare time, convicts delivered thousands...