Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over 50,000 at present. It has wielded great political power, but this is waning, although politicians in general steer clear of incurring its wrath. In recent municipal elections it succeeded in some cities and failed in others. Its former Grand Dragon is serving a life term in prison for murder of a girl...
Charlotte Anita Whitney is not in prison. She would have been there had not the Supreme Court granted a rehearing of her case, for she had been convicted under the California Criminal Syndicalism Law and sentenced to 1 to 14 years in prison for belonging to the Communist Labor Party...
...forces and the enemy ultimately came face to face at Carberry Hill. She could make terms for herself, none for him. Bothwell's outnumbered troops wavered and muttered. He waited no longer; with a hasty word to her he mounted and fled, to die an exile, in prison...
...island castle of Loch Leven, Mary's charm brought her a rescuer, George Douglas, who loved her, and later, in an English prison, she was wooed by the Duke of Norfolk and pledged herself to him. These were the last despairing attempts of a doomed woman to regain her freedom, to save her life, to win a crown...
...Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word, action and philosophy...