Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to company and efficiency, he liked forgery. This had cost him two prison terms and an arrest last December. Digging into his secretive past, police found at least eight instances in which Forger Cline's buttermilk-drinking friends had died, leaving him legacies totaling $82,000. They also found that he left one of the coldest trails south of the Yukon...
Fritz Kuhn, porky U.S. Nazi of the '303, deported last year to Germany, was freed from his German prison as a harmless character in his native land. Porky no longer, he headed for Munich and "a new start"-as a chemist, said he, "if they'll let me." Swore Kuhn: "I'll never go back to politics again...
Henri-Philippe Pétain turned 90 in his island prison off the Brittany coast, looked so fit to his doctor that he was judged capable of attaining...
...entering-and-exiting great-aunts, uncles, fathers, cousins, sons, daughters and defunct ancestors. But what they will get clearly, and often admirably, is Author Welty's subtle blending and harmonizing of the moods and characteristics that make a large, well-knit family sound like an orchestra (sometimes a prison orchestra) going full blast. The aim and essence of Delta Wedding is the recording of this mass effect; it has no plot, no direct narrative, and its few dramatic incidents and occasional solos seem to be brought in merely to show how negligible and squeaky they are compared with...
...original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles away from school, put him to work at a shilling a day in a blacking factory. Father and mother Dickens spent this period in a debtors' prison, where they were relatively comfortable, and safe from creditors. When they were released, Mrs. Dickens tried to persuade Charles to go on working in the factory. "I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget," said Dickens, "that my mother was warm for my being sent back...