Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbes did not try to avoid prison on account of his health. Because of a stroke of paralysis a year ago, he limped as he went to Leavenworth. Although he is only 47 he is bent and grey, with perhaps only 150 Ib. of his usual 225 Ib. remaining...
...went to prison of his own accord?before orders for his commitment could be prepared?and paid a visit. He had been in prison before when he was a boy of 22, for deserting from the Army. Since then he has won the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre in France. He said to the warden: "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution, and I do not expect to be shown any favors over other prisoners. If I am assigned to shoveling coal, I shall not make the slightest complaint. I am willing...
...taught the young girls to do good works among the poor; I had 200 under my rule. . . . No one can imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray for the intervention of your government. . . . But I am too old; I have spent my life. . . . What is there left for me? I will retire into the convent in Barcelona...
...perception of and longing for the nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever-faithful lovers, the reader finds in the story of Philip and Carlota little to arouse emotion...
...state of Delaware survive many of the customs which rendered English justice so deadly a century and a half ago. Latest achievement of this commonwealth which still champions the whipping post is a popular, public hanging. A crowd which the spectators at the old Newgate prison would have recognized as kin gathered 5000 strong to see the execution of a negro...