Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kahr did join Hitler & Ludendorff ("at the point of a pistol," he afterwards testified). Enough other beer-soused Bavarians joined to make it necessary for a Reichswehr regiment to shoot several people. When Ludendorff & Hitler were tried for high treason the General was acquitted, the upstart given a light prison sentence from which he was released in a few months ("as insane," say enemies...
Died. Kate Meyrick, sixtyish, mother of eight, London night club proprietor; of influenza; at the home of a son-in-law, the Earl of Kinnoull; in London. Choice hostesses at her clubs (Silver Slipper, 43 Club) were her daughters, available only to the socially & politically eminent. She served five prison terms for selling liquor without a license, for bribing police...
...abortion rather than bear his child. After a brief interlude as charitarian to a publicity-loving millionairess, Ann attacked penology, spent 14 hellish months as a matron in a Southern penitentiary. Conditions there and her helplessness to do anything lasting about them filled her with a horror of prisons, a grim determination to do what she could. The first shadow of middle age found her in charge of a model woman's prison in Manhattan, an Authority, a Famous Woman...
...When one night a friend hinted that a meeting might be arranged, Garry jumped at the chance. At the meeting Tully asked Garry to sign a manifesto that would mean arrest and certain death to two of the signers. Garry agreed without batting an eye. In Mount joy Prison he and Tully were put in the same cell; they were to be shot in the morning. To his astonishment Garry discovered that Tully's real name was Tulloolagh: she was a woman. The night passed differently from what he had expected. And at dawn he and Tulloolagh were released...
Stories of this type hold expansive possibilities for romantic tragediennes. Ruth Chatterton makes the most of them, particularly throughout the carefully built-up climax sequence at San Quentin prison, in which she bravely refrains from telling the district attorney the secret that might save her. Typical shot: Frisco Jenny watching the 1926 Stanford v. California football game in which her son plays for Stanford...