Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long would you like to have your husband remain in jail...
Ballot-wise, the House of Commons buzzed with approval last week as Home Secretary Sir John Simon decreed a 20-year jail sentence for Rats's murderer, with possibility of earlier release for good conduct. In gushing editorials Britons were reminded that at the worst Stoner will be only 38 when released "with a full life before...
...Life prepared its gossip about Emperors and had not authorized the piece. Associate Editor Yih Sui, presumably responsible, was shown to have escaped to a place unknown. Thereupon, as a trim Japanese officer watched grimly in the courtroom, Editor Tu received the maximum sentence of 14 months in jail at hard labor...
Such was the verbatim answer not of one vindictive ex-wife but of no less than 270, during the three years that indignant Executive Secretary Jack Anthony of the Alimony Reform League of New York State has been prying into the psychology of women who have their onetime mates jailed for nonpayment of alimony. Lately Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, distinguished Stanford University psychologist, after tabulating the results of a questionnaire, described the typical divorced woman as lacking "sweet femininity" but possessing "rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance" (TIME, June 24). But Dr. Terman had no evidence that...
...send your husband to jail?" asked Mr. Anthony. "He deserved it," answered 28% of the women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent...