Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River (Fox). Reputed to be a satire, this undecisive story about prison life contains such an odd combination of mildly funny and seriously romantic and even melodramatic sequences that the spectator is left wondering whether it is meant to satirize prison, or movies about prison, or satires of movies about prison...
...fines. In England and Canada flogging by birch or by 'the cat' also is in-flicted." Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Law Enforcement Commission, now preparing its report at Washington, wrote that in a paper read for him last week before the American Prison Association at Louisville, Ky. He concluded: "A careful inquiry . . . may well be made to determine the desirability of employing [flogging] in the war against banditry and racketeers...
...Author. Michael Ossorgin, 52, Russian intellectual and member of the nobility, was banished by the Tsar for Liberalism, by the Bolsheviks for the same reason. Since 1922 he has lived in Paris. Says he: "Above all else I value freedom, but I have drunk deep of prison life. I dislike newspapers, yet I have been a journalist for 30 years...
...everything with innumerable companies on a chain system, with boards of directors composed of nonentities who exercise no true leadership, often with faked balance sheets and non-existent dividends. They are the true, authentic, most dangerous kind of antiFascists because they speculate on the good faith of the public. Prison is small retribution for their misdeeds. They sow such infinite ruin and misery and they do such harm that they truly deserve Death...
...Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven, red-faced, he has thick white hair, seamed cheeks, a trenchant nose, a stubborn but unaggressive jaw, a wide, clear...