Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good friend of the brothers was Francesco Nitti, nephew of Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, 1919-20. Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...
...meet again till Irina was famous and Ivan a hunted revolutionary. And they met only to quarrel. Then the Revolution broke and the tables turned. Now Ivan was a power and Irina a nobody, endangered. He saved her life but could not or would not keep her from prison. After an ingenious jail delivery engineered by her friends, when she was nearly at the Finnish border and safety, the two lovers met again. Whether neither or both or one crossed the border is a secret any adventure author would prefer readers to discover for themselves...
...fourth round, Major A. J. Evans, whose famed book The Escaping Club tells how he got out of a German prison camp during the War, failed to escape from Wilford Wehrle of Racine, Wis. All square after being 3 down, the major needed a 12-ft. putt to halve the 18th hole. Addressing the ball, he moved it too slightly for anyone but himself to see, picked it up, conceded hole & match...
Must buy it back or go to prison...
...Huntsville, Tex., tiring of working at the Harlem Prison Farm, William H. Shoemake. 19, serving a two-year sentence for theft, paid another convict $5 to chop off his right foot with...