Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragged one of the original Coblenz Nazis, strong-minded, sharp-tongued Frau Lily Schultz. It appeared that this 40-year-old boardinghouse keeper had loudly disparaged Cologne's District Storm Troop Leader as "a young upstart!" Promptly convicted, Original Nazi Lily was sentenced to eight months in jail...
...tried and convicted while Paris papers ran page after page of feature articles, compared her to every famed murderess from Messalina to Beatrice Cenci. Though crowds' rioted against her outside the jail, though fellow prisoners spat hatefully at her, grey-haired President Lebrun was so moved by a last-minute plea for mercy from the mother whom she had tried to kill, that he commuted Violette Nozières' sentence last week to life imprisonment...
...some Nazi Storm Troopers loitering in the station Miss Sittell was moved to say, "Those are awful uniforms you're wearing." The Storm Troopers summoned the lone policeman of Waldmohr, a village three miles distant. He charged Stenographer Sittell with "insulting the Realmleader," clapped her into the village jail. When correspondents arrived they found the village in a panic. Nobody would say anything except the policeman. "Now don't go writing any atrocity stories," he begged. "Fräulein Sittell has plenty of food and all possible conveniences. Her dancing around merrily in her cell is the best...
...convert hard-boiled chance acquaintances. He was the strongest man who had ever been to his little sectarian college, and he had an excellent tenor voice, but somehow people did not like George Brush. Although he practically never did a wrong thing he was always getting into trouble, including jail. But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors that he was crazy and comparatively harmless. George Brush flinched at no opportunities to put his principles to the test, even experimented with new ones (such as a 24-hour vow of silence) that landed him in really nasty messes...
John Bole was spending ten days in jail in a small, law-abiding town because he had solicited a passing car for a lift. But John Bole was no common hitchhiker. On the jailer and the jailer's wife he made a strongly mysterious impression; his effect on the jailer's daughter was even stronger. When his time was up she insisted on going with him, though he made it clear to her that he was only a visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing...