Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Madame du Barry (Dolores Del Rio) is brought to Louis XV (Reginald Owen) as nominee for a place in a distinguished line of mis tresses, and ends shortly before the Revolution when, with Louis dead and his watchmaker-grandson on the throne, du Barry is led off to prison. In the interim, she has gone sleigh-riding in midsummer on snow contrived of sugar; made her pickaninny body-servant Governor of Provence; averted war with England; given her jewels to the poor; and presented herself at court in her nightgown. All of this is told with credibility...
...First Legion (by Emmet Lavery; Bert Lytell and Phil Green, producers). The scene is a House of the Society of Jesus, the bare cubicles of the Fathers, the Gothic arches and mullioned windows of the Community Room. The characters, like those in prison and wartime plays, are all male...
...campaign to electrocute Bruno Hauptmann at the State Prison in Trenton by the spring of 1935 went relentlessly on. In the earth below the Hauptmann garage New York police found a barrel of nails such as those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector...
...When it issues an edict making it possible to put a man in prison and fine him $10,000 for refusing to turn over HIS gold to the government...
Since Mahatma Gandhi dropped his anti-British disobedience campaign and turned to such a forlorn cause as abolishing Untouchability, more and more of India's Hindus have turned away from him. In 1930 when he was all India's idol and a prisoner in the Poona jail, he whiled away the time translating from Sanskrit into English hymns from the Upanishads and other Sanskrit scriptures and from the Bhakti poets. Last week Macmillan Co. published his Songs From Prison. Samples...