Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus last week did Jesse Harding Pomeroy, long ago killer of little children, get his first view of a modern world. He was being transferred to the State Farm at Bridgewater. Fifty-three continuous years in jail, 41 of them in solitary confinement, Convict Pomeroy has served a longer life term than any other living U. S. prisoner...
...South Boston butcher's son, Jesse Pomeroy began a life of brief but terrible crime at 13, when he was sent to a reform school for torturing little children. Upon his release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison...
...their long flight was debatable. They did display the stamina of their Curtiss-Challenger engine and they did strengthen public confidence in flying. Otherwise they accomplished nothing that had not been indicated by previous endurance flights. By operating their motor at low speed they kept it in long life. But that flying method does not help plane owners who must run their engines at high speed to travel from point to point...
FAREWELL TO PARADISE-Frank Thiess-Knopf ($2). To those who have never read him, Author Thiess may be introduced as the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
...mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around on his yacht in warm weather until she finds out that he has tired of her. The moment when she is trying to understand that this has happened is what makes you remember the picture. She goes...