Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the French Government's official demands that Lieutenant Desmons be immediately set free, he was put on trial last week at Constantinople. The Court (which unquestionably had no jurisdiction, since the collision took place out-side Turkish territorial waters) sentenced Lieutenant Desmons to one year in prison and then reduced the sentence to 60 days, finally striking off from this latter sentence the 40 days which he had spent in prison awaiting trial...
...prodigious amount of Wellsian philosophy. But the "vulgar" reader and reviewer are asked to understand that the book is not Mr. Wells' autobiography, but William Clissold's. The latter is merely a "relative" of Mr. Wells, a mineralogist whose promoter-father committed suicide on the way to prison, leaving the mother free to remarry and the boys, William and Dickon Clissold, to make their own lives...
Pitch-soaked torches roared high one night last week in the public courtyard of the Central Prison at Angora, A Death-lured crowd, chattering expectantly, hushed as four tripod gallows were erected. Eerie as ghosts in the flickering light, four white-clad condemned men paced silently from their cells...
Foreign Minister Briand of France summoned peremptorily to Paris last week the Turkish Ambassador, Fethy Bey, who was vacationing at Dinard. Irate, M. Briand demanded the instant re lease from prison at Constantinople of the captain of the French steamer Lotus who had been jailed in defiance of international law when the Lotus recently rammed and sank in a heavy fog the Turkish ship Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first...
Last week, sunbeams crept softly through the penitentiary bars, glistened on tears of joy in the eyes of Mr. Langley, who was composing a telegram to his darling, Spouse Langley. His words flowed like a dream in the Vale of Tempe: "I am supremely happy. Even these grey prison walls seem to shine with the lustre of our beloved Cumberland and Blue Ridge. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. May He bless and keep always the good men and women and all our children of the Kentucky Mountains. My love and greetings...