Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wormwood Scrubs Prison, a soot-blackened pile in western London over-looking railway yards and a bleak, 200-acre common, Baron Kylsant and Sir John Simon pondered their next move. A final appeal was possible to Lord Kylsant's peers, the House of Lords, highest British court. On the other hand, by accepting his sentence of one year in jail and serving it meritoriously, Lord Kylsant could win a reduction of two months for "good behavior," might be a free man again as early as next September...
...saved his sister from closet prison...
...Johann Most made slighting remarks about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery spirit was housed in a fiery body: in love she took her only vacations from the Cause. After Berkman came Ed Brady, Hippolyte Havel, Ben Reitman. She was very willing to take Berkman back when his prison term was over but somehow he did not want to; from then on they were just Platonic...
Sentence. A moment later Judge Wilkerson explained the sentence in detail and Snorkey realized that he would not have to spend 17 years in prison. For the felony of attempting to evade tax payments during three years his sentence was five years for each offense, but two of the terms were to run concurrently. For failing to pay up the other two times he received one year each, but those two sentences were also to run concurrently. Total: eleven years. The fine for each count was $10,000; total: $50,000, and all of that Snorkey must...
Prime novelty of last year's concert season was the Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus (TIME, Nov. 17). The Don Cossacks, singers in a regiment stranded eleven years ago in a Bolshevik prison camp, won every U. S. audience which heard them with their perfect unity, their stunning crescendos, their fragile pianissimos. The U. S. likes its music obviously defined. The Don Cossacks sing very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England...