Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that we have put on the pretense of being gentlemen from sheer surfeit with the things of this world. After all, we owe it to coming generations of Dartmouth men to preserve the world's illusion concerning them. We must save them their birthright. We can't eat a mess of pottage and have it too. The Dartmouth...
...have never been in any kind of mess...
Early last week it was evident that the foment had not quieted in the old prison. Three convicts tried to start another outburst in the mess hall. And when the convict band at Stateville, practicing unguarded, fought among themselves over the question of inciting similar disturbance, prison officials knew that the newer institution had also been infected with the virus of revolt. They announced: "Things are hot right now. Anything might hap- pen." It happened next...
...hundred men in the machine shop dropped their work, set fire to the place. Yelling, brandishing clubs, other inmates joined the riot, ignited the mess hall, two kitchens, laundry, paint shop, chair and shoe factories. The confusion increased. Eyes stinging with the yellow smoke, more than a thousand prisoners broke all the windows of the buildings which would not burn, destroyed their food supply, screamed, leaped, slipped, tumbled about in the thick mud left by melted snow. Finally Warden Hill walked out among them and ordered: "Go back to your cells or we'll fire." A Negro advanced threateningly...
Sullen since the death of three comrades who tried to escape (TIME, March 2), angered with the news that another prisoner had died while shackled in solitary confinement, 1,100 convicts at Joliet (Ill.) State Penitentiary dashed their food to the floor and rioted in the mess hall one noon last week. Guards drove most of them into the prison yard, fired at their feet with shotguns. Another group isolated itself in the kitchens, was later subdued. Within an hour all were herded back to their cells. Casualties: one prisoner killed; one guard and three convicts wounded. The Joliet penitentiary...