Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week one of the Balkan terrorists arrested after the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander finally cracked under...
Since all European prisoners must bear it, Marseille prison physicians certified Mio Kraj to be "slightly unbalanced." They then returned him to his cell and the peeping continued, despite irate protests by Mio Kraj's lawyer: "You are driving my client...
Consul Geist was told that Prisoner Roiderer had been brought from Munich to Berlin's famed prison for political offenders, Moabit. Down to Moabit went Consul Geist. "No such prisoner is here," he was told. After calling on various Nazi officials, the U. S. Consul was finally told, "It is very doubtful whether Richard Roiderer has been brought to Moabit...
Soprano Mary Garden sang four songs to the inmates of Sing Sing Prison...
...They" were old George Barker's divorced wife and his four sons. He was sick, poor, alone but his path had been honest. Their path had led two to prison, three to violent Death...