Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention which suggests prison as the proper place for him who would denasalize an officer of the law is not purely Italian. Nose punching, even in democratic America, is seldom without a legal postlude. Truly the affair does arouse one's ire when one realizes how unsportsmanlike the officer must have been. But to misquote a certain British actor, "Aren't they...
During his two months' imprisonment, Mr. Bergdoll has had the freedom of the prison garden, has dined exclusively upon meals supplied by a neighboring hotel, has grown a mustache. He appeared nervous and acutely conscious that a possible ten-year sentence might await him if convicted. Large drops of perspiration dampened his brow as he took the stand in a courtroom from which spectators were excluded "for the protection of public morals...
While Premier Mussolini disported himself in Tripoli, the white-haired Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate him (TIME, April 19) sat in a prison cell in Rome, closely watched by Italian nuns...
Fortunately, the master myth on which the later legends are based is being somewhat allayed by contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
Before his marriage had come the curious episode of his supervision of the Nevada State's Prison, full of the toughest men that lived. He talked to them of ideals. They mocked. He abolished the lockstep. They did not object. He made the prison clean ("It doesn't cost the state anything to be clean," said he). The rough men smiled. He put them out on the honor system to work on the roads for pay. One convict ran away. The convicts cheered, for their chance had come. They asked for parole to chase the offender. Raymond...