Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he wrings from her what she has done, in an ecstasy of virtue, he flings her off in disgust and marches out to confession and prison...
...years later, prison has not softened his virtue, nor lowered his priggish eyebrow. He will not have her even now. Thereupon she slaps him, and forgives him. So that is the way things happen when people love each other, as Miss Dane assures us that they...
...class." He does not appear to have sponsored Marxism for any personal grievance and was, according to himself, slow to embrace it at all. It is true that beginning with Jan. 18, 1898, he served various terms of imprisonment amounting in all to ten years. "It was in prison that I finally became converted to the theory of Marx." He was a Social Democrat. After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement...
...Lullaby. Husband commits murder and is himself killed in the act. Faithful wife takes part blame and is parked in state's prison. Baby daughter is adopted by State Governor and brought up respectable. Years pass. Mother comes out. Mother seeks baby daughter. Baby daughter is having coming out party at very gubernatorial mansion. Mother gets by the butlers. Governor persuades mother: "She must not know." Mother agrees and goes out on lawn to commit suicide. Daughter and fiance bring her around. Fiancé marries daughter anyway...
...only valuable contribution of the picture is the versatility of Jane Novak in the triple role of wife, old prison-poisoned mother, her own daughter...