Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slight Case of Murder (by Damon Runyon & Howard Lindsay; Howard Lindsay, producer). The world of Damon Runyon is no less unique, apart and unreal than that of Lewis Carroll or P. G. Wodehouse. For one thing, it has a language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With...
Finally the Court sentenced Captain Krivonosov to death, after calling him a "coward." To sentence the Party official to death would have made too much news. He got ten years. Nine sailors received various prison terms for the crime of "observing capitalistic traditions." The seven who had warned their captain that he would hear from Moscow were acquitted...
...lean chapters of reminiscences that give the impression of having been carefully selected from a great storehouse of similar memories. Essentially the work of a man of action-the author dismisses in two paragraphs his experiences in the Turkish Army, an attack of typhus, work in Russian prison camps, revolution in Poland, destitution in California-it is a romantic, uncritical, admiring book...
Criminologists, prison wardens, managers of insane asylums and keepers of houses of correction from 50 countries arrived expectantly last week in Berlin. On Sept. 1 a new Nazi-made penal code becomes effective throughout Germany (TIME, July 8). Eager to explain it, Nazis were lavish hosts last week to the eleventh International Penal & Penitentiary Conference...
...bottles of beer and borrowed $10 from Delicatessen Owners Robert Wolf and Alfred Wolitsky in the course of ordering 125 corned beef sandwiches, 50 liverwurst sandwiches ("peeled"), 75 limburger sandwiches ("smeared thin"), 150 turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson had no connection with Welfare Island and no money, had her arrested...