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Word: prisoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor was imprisoned in a fortress on Gara Mulata. There he was allowed luxurious furniture, rich foods and the run of his prison-but night & day he remained chained to the wrist of a guard. Even so he managed to escape in 1932 disguised as a woman. Since then Fitaurari Shimels, who fortnight ago was in Addis Ababa for orders, has been Yasu's special keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Child in Chains | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...will be faced with charges of assault and battery which make him liable to a prison sentence. It also seems likely that the College will take disciplinary action against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARREST PREDICTED THIS MORNING FOR JANITOR ASSAULT | 10/30/1935 | See Source »

...Federal Court last week Fixer Hogan was convicted, sentenced to a year & a day in prison, fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Representative | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Long on the list of WPA projects was a bright colorful mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jail Job | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...subject of her prison mural she consulted earnestly with prison authorities and inmates. The latter promptly rejected Women in Industry as "sounding too much like work." They preferred Women in National Costume. Superintendent Collins won them over to The Cycle of a Woman's Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jail Job | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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