Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congress has not said that "we will allow only men who agree with us to debate with us," but Congress has, with thoroughly justifiable indignation, refused to permit the contamination of the national legislative body by admitting to it a man who has served a prison sentence for treason against the United States government in war time, and whose "ideals" are confessedly unchanged. I grant that the man is probably sincere; sincere people are the most dangerous. Mr. Pond has undertaken to defend a man whose conduct renders him indefensible. J. G. CURTIS...
...request of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, refrained from commenting upon the situation, merely publishing the facts of the cases. One of the negroes, identified as the assailant of three women, including a 16-year-old girl, was sentenced to six months in prison. The others still await trial in the state penitentiary, while the colored association collects money for their defense...
...Sire," the play by Henri Lavedon, produced by the Cercle Francais yesterday afternoon, revolves around two French types, Roulette, who masquerades as Louis XVII and La Comtesse de Saint-Salbi, an old and emotional lady who always refused to believe that Louis XVII had died in prison and at once is taken in by Roulette's imposition...
...armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring fortress of Ham, which was wrecked last spring by the Germans, was the prison of Louis Napoleon from 1840 to 1846, and from it he escaped disguised as a laborer. In January, 1871, St. Quentin, Bapaume, Ham, and Peronne were the scenes of sanguinary battles between the Germans and the French provincial armies attempting to relieve Paris...
Lieutenant O'Brien, who fell 8,000 feet with his airplane into the German lines, was captured and held for some time in a German prison camp. The story of his escape, which was effected by jumping through a train window and working for 72 days towards the frontier, is perhaps the most extraordinary personal experience...