Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louisville Herald-Post and Banker Charles Bradley of Newark, N. J. There were five death sentences to be commuted to life imprisonment. A blind magistrate who had robbed a Baptist church was to be paroled. So was a Paducah woman who had murdered with dynamite. The Governor reduced 150 prison sentences and closed his executive journal with clemency for a 'legger...
...left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps the Vagabond climbed, dimly conscious that he had tasted a life and a time foreign to the ordered scholasticism of this place...
...Connell Street, cheering, singing "Down King! Up Republican Army!" Free State officials were alive to the seriousness of the situation. A Public Safety Act was issued making membership in the Irish Republican Army and eleven other secret organizations illegal.* A military tribunal was set up to try prisoners for sedition. Free State police raided a dozen homes, jailed 20 men in the ancient Arbour Hill Military Prison, where leaders of the Rebellion of 1916 were executed and buried...
During the War he served in France as a driver for the Norton Harjes Ambulance, ended his military career as a private at Camp Devens. In 1922 he published The Enormous Room, a novel of his experiences in a French War prison, considered by most critics one of the few important War books. He followed it in 1923 with Tulips & Chimneys, a book of poems which almost anyone could understand. Then began his soul-searching struggles with punctuation and capital letters, resulting in such volumes as XLI Poems, Is 5, & and the recently published W (Viva). He became a regular...
Surrender (Fox). In Surrender Director William K. Howard takes his camera into a German castle, shows what happened there during the War. The owner, a German count approaching dotage, plays with toy soldiers. The castle is near a prison camp run by a captain who wears a black bandage over one side of his face, who blows his brains out when the War is over. The most pleasant thing that happens is a love affair between a French prisoner (Warner Baxter) and the fiancee of the count's son (Leila Hyams). This nearly turns out badly. Baxter tries...