Word: lockup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws. But to run off with them to give them to the Church-bah! A vision, did the bishop say? The bishop would make him give the goods back? Visions like that would land a boy in the lockup...
These followers of the great Moliere, who was himself once a vagabond, have on occasion received the treatment of vagabonds. At one point the entire troupe was nearly thrown into the lockup when State police mistook the truck and its variegated riders for gypsy bootleggers. On another occasion, when the Players were mistaken for gypsies, they were escorted out of the state...