Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens to be an ex-doctor (Raymond Walburn), delivers the young wife of a baby while the hard-boiled member of the gang (Bruce Cabot) meltingly gives up the stolen bonds to get her husband out of prison...
...gone home to enlist as a private in Lee's Battery of Virginia Light Artillery, was fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
...Some day the crowds will be so great and so stirred up against capital punishment that the authorities won't dare go ahead with an execution. But I am before my time, I suppose. They crucified Christ, they stabbed Lincoln, they put Mrs. Pankhurst in prison, and I suppose they will martyrize me. I eat only fruit juices. I have gained 50 pounds since my husband died 18 months ago. The light of my life went out, and now my glands have ceased to function...
...each other to see who will have nerve enough to follow the commander forward, stumble to their feet, start to run and, the lust and excitement of combat suddenly on them, break into that wild monotone which, in civil life, is heard only in the frenzy of a prison riot...
Released, John Torrio swung gaily out of court with Mrs. Torrio. Once off Federal property, New York City detectives arrested him on an old forgery indictment, carted him off to headquarters. Unable to furnish $4,000 bail, he was whisked to the Tombs prison. Within 30 minutes Mrs. Torrio bustled back with the cash which set her husband free for the second time...