Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hold em Jail," the companion picture, is another of Wheeler and Woolsey's uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...
Just out of a German prison camp and serving with Herbert Hoover's relief administration, U. S. Pilot Merian Coldwell Cooper was deeply shocked when a Russian cavalry detachment swooped down on a group of meanly-armed youths defending the fortified city of Lwow, sabered to death all but a handful. Pilot Cooper persuaded Polish authorities to let him recruit a squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes. Back to Warsaw he took ten crack flyers. Major Cedric E. Fauntleroy had been chief test and ordnance pilot of the A. E. F., later flew with Rickenbacker...
...yielded first on a minor point. Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon's much publicized order to eject the Mahatma from jail and detain him under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached an agreement with Hindus of all castes terminating...
...electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...
Clara Phillips, famed "hammer murderess" doing 35 years in California's San Quentin Prison, lost a chance for parole when caught flirting with a Los Angeles burglar who delivered dental supplies to the women's quarters...