Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holding a 50-year-old pistol in both hands to steady it, Ezekiel Brown, 74, of Colorado Springs, Colo. fired two slugs into a neighbor (after a back-fence quarrel) but failed to kill him. In jail the creaky gunman bitterly told police: "My eyesight ain't what it used...
...decreed that "persons of the female sex must wear a bathing suit of opaque material . . . including a skirt which reaches close to the knees; they must also wear a suitable brassiere." In practice, most Trifluvians had ignored the by-law and its penalties (forty dollars or two months in jail). On the city council there was talk of doing away with the anachronistic ordinance...
Spoor. In Pittsburgh, Marshall Johnson was sentenced to a term in jail for burglary, after he had left at the scene of he crime 1) his fingerprints, 2) his social security number, 3) a picture of his wife...
...visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America. But O'Donnell though he is a militant socialist and practicing Roman Catholic, had also helped found a bogful of Communist peasant groups...
...gave Moore 20 days to show cause why he should not be banned from further commodity trading. (He also faces possible criminal penalties of a $10,000 fine and a year in jail...