Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction, a vindicated public forgets abruptly the object of its morbid attention, and, satisfied, turns avidly to others. Before incarceration the audacious criminal is a romantic figure, afterwards he is a convict, a marked man,--one to be despised, and feared, and rejected. Behind the impenetrable branding gray of prison walls dwells a race apart, whose unnatural existence is seldom probed, in whom society's only interest is the enforcement of its due. But in the last few years an advocate has appeared for the "forgotten race," a man whose penetration, squareness, and sincere faith in humankind have won respect...
Although a sketchy summary of years of prison experiences, the book may be divided clearly into three sections. The first hundred pages deal graphically with the reactions of the rookie guard to the silent system in force at Clinton and Auburn, and with his promotion and outstanding success as overseer at the New York City Reformatory. In these early days, Lawes was quick to see the faults of a system which, enforcing obedience by oppressive silence and solitary confinement, produced only curses and sent men shuffling, "lockstepping their way back to life." Then in rapid anecdotal succession follows the fascinating...
...weird "plot pourri" of all the tales handed in at the Fox office this last twelvemonth. Miss Landi tramps along through a divorce court, a murder court, and out to the glaring sunlight of a tennis court where she serves very badly, and back again into prison to see her husband serve for his double fault. It is a grotesque slow-moving business made possible by the wrinkling nose of Miss Landi and the early murder of Mr. Gilbert Roland. It all comes out for the best in the end when Neil Hamilton as the husband gives up his ways...
Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...
...Last week Dr. Cook who, since his 1909 disgrace, spent five years in Leavenworth Prison for stock swindling, was working for the Boys Brotherhood Republic in Chicago as its physical instructor...