Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fond of our prison and our clay...
...death have been pushed in Congress. Last week House and Senate Judiciary Committees promised these measures speedy attention, and the House Post Office and Post Roads Committee reported favorably on a bill making the sender of an extortion letter liable to $5,000 fine, or 20 years in prison, or both...
Arthur Conan Doyle could not have conceived a more fantastic story than that of the Lindbergh kidnapping. In spite of his convincing style, few would have believed that a criminal, regardless of his genius, could from a prison cell manoeuver a kidnapping so that, as the hero of the rescue, he might secure his freedom. The most recent developments of the Lindbergh case put such a story well within the realms of possibility...
...short," he concluded, "the prison problem must be separated from politics; laws like the Baumes law, which, incidentally, have been tried in western states and given up as failures, and which were directly responsible for recent prison breaks, must be repealed; most important of all, the emphasis must be placed on crime prevention, not cure...
Switching on his Z-tube, Alchemist Dunikowski began to repeat the experiment which led several rich Frenchmen to lend him money, next led him to the Sante Prison. With a loud bang the Z-tube blew up. The French judges promised Alchemist Dunikowski (severely burned under his right eye) another chance, as soon as he can make a new Z-tube...