Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel called The Asiatics. It was the work of a 78-year-old Yale professor, and it described the wanderings of an anonymous narrator from Persia to China, with careful and realistic descriptions of the extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book had its source in the author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every...
...lineage back through many generations), John J. Lehmanowsky, after an extensive education in Poland journeyed to France and immediately became embroiled in the turbulent affairs of the country. He decided to support Napoleon and rapidly rose in his esteem, becoming one of his most trusted generals. Thrown into prison and sentenced to execution, following Napoleon's downfall, he made a miraculous escape to this country where he spent the remainder of his life as an author, lecturer, teacher and minister of the Lutheran Church...
...oldest French possessions. Settled in 1626, it has been a French penal colony almost continuously since 1852. Half the present population (10,700) of Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, are convicts. Many thousands merely live in unbarred exile. Only a handful of the most desperate prisoners are actually confined on Devil's Island, one of the three "Safety Islands" off the Guiana Coast. Devil's Island's fame originated largely from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana...
...declaring that Barcelona was split into four hostile factions. "The hordes now in charge in Catalonia," he said, "resamble sewer rats come up for air, and I fear it is going to be difficult to get them down into the sewers again, whatever happens. Thousands of convicts liberated from prison roam the streets and some of them have been made 'officials.' In the midst of all this the, authorities are devoting plenty of time to campaigns against religion. The word adios [good-by] is banned as it evokes the name of God. and instead everyone...
...fighting under such banners as LONG LIVE DYNAMITE! A speech by Socialist Prieto in which he urged the Government militia to moderate their excesses brought a violent counter blast from Communist Deputy Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri:- "Im- prison the wives and children of all who are fighting the Government! . . . The life of each militiaman fighting at the front must be guaranteed by holding the mother or child of a traitor as hostage!" In Madrid hospitals, where most of the trained nurses have always been Sisters of Mercy, these nuns were ejected last week by untrained radical nurses despite...