Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War Estonians overthrew a native Bolshevik regime which had held their capital for five weeks. Next they fought off the Germans, who undertook to "police" Estonia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Finally they faced an invasion of the Russian Reds. From a prison camp, into which the Germans had flung him, emerged one Konstantin Pats, just in time to help lead Estonian forces which drove off the Red Army invaders. Last week, determined Konstantin Pats, now Acting President of the Republic, celebrated at Tallinn Estonia's 20th birthday...
...work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century county jail. The steel book-racks, the dull concrete floors of the corridors served to heighten the impression that he was in prison, tortured by the Gods and Harvard college for a number of weeks, all for the cause of a thesis...
With a wrench the Vagabond tore his mind from reveries and returned to his book of the moment. It was a history of the Irish Rebellion, telling how noble young men and patriots suffered torture, prison, and even death at the hands of the British during the years of the World War and after, all for the sake of freedom. Prisons fouler than Widener were endured by these youthful idealists, and hunger strikes were their only means of getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could...
...Prisoners, Therefore at 11 p. m. that evening the Chancellor laid before the President for his signature the most repugnant decree. Effective at midnight, it opened the jails and prison camps of Austria, releasing everyone confined for a political offense. There have been few political crimes in history more revolting than that of certain Austrian Nazis who, in 1934, disguised in Austrian uniforms, invaded the Chancellery in Vienna and shot in cold blood Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who lay groaning before he died (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). To Schuschnigg and Miklas, the decree was immoral in every sense of the word...
...mallet and relieved him of $65,000 worth of jewels, the outraged British public demanded the young men get their punishment. Get it they did, last week. Lord Hewart, the stern Lord Chief Justice, handed down their sentences: for the four an aggregate of 16½ years in prison, for one 20 lashes, for another 15, with a cat-o'-nine-tails...