Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...
Ashes of a prophet so dishonred in his own country that he spent many a year in prison, were last week the object of celebrations in Germany...
...murderers had confessed separately and were reviling each other from their prison cells. Judd Gray, the corset-salesman, was pleading insanity and saying he had been led astray, debauched. Ruth Snyder, the wife, was professing horror and penitence, calling her paramour a low "jackal." Also there was even a child, Lorraine Snyder, aged 9, to heighten the emotionalism of the trial. Lorraine still believed her father and mother were temporarily away "on a trip...
...very pretty but is it war? It seems rather to be a tremendous victory for the Conservatives, if one not registered at the polls or in the records of Parliament. There are a few who might prefer the attitude typified by two men now facing death in a Massachusetts prison who are proud of calloused hands. And yet again, it may be the top-hatted labour M. P.'s who will reach their goal sooner. The thought and laws of England have often changed but its polish remains the same...
...Gossip said he would pay his own way to Atlanta to keep his appointment with the government on time; the U. S. Marshal's office, left without money to pay his fare by the Senate filibuster, can only give him temporary reservations in the Tombs prison in Manhattan...