Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prison Fare. Before the same association, Dr. George Walker of Baltimore said: "Milk, not bread, is the staff of life. Five quarts of milk a day alone will keep one alive, for milk contains every food requisite, except iron...
...cloud . . . a bed in a poor house, something dead on the bed . . . old checks, thumb-marked, rubber-stamped, checks for enormous sums made out in furtive or in precise or pompous or illiterate calligraphies to a person named "Stephenson". . . . A man hissing through the disinfected bars of a prison cell a word so soft that his listener could hardly hear him. "The swine . . . the swine...
...lascivious party-"I am the counterpart of Napoleon, the master mind of all the world. Drink her down." He was dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl. He was dealing with D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana...
From jail he has been writing letters. Two of them got past the prison authorities. He says that the murder charge was trumped up against him by his political tools who, rather than pay what they owed him, packed him off to jail. Mr. Stephenson lists among his onetime tools Governor Ed. Jackson,* Mayor J. L. Duvall of Indianapolis, and many another weaker light...
...night club. He is a redheaded Irishman with a chest like an oak, rumpled red hair, cracked knuckles, a throat for pints of whiskey, ears for the rumble of life. His eyes are humorous, quick, lonely. He was born in a slum, educated by existence. Perhaps he is a prison graduate, bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding he has made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place, a tornado of an Irishman to whom morals count less than...