Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suburbia, life is harder still on such "toasts of Paris." Du Maurier's Trilby died miserably, drugged to the last by Svengali's evil eye. Last week, flabby and 45, her cheeks pasty white and sagging, Kiki shuffled out of the door of La Roquette Prison. Picked up a month ago near the old Dome for peddling narcotics, Kiki was out on bail so that doctors could treat her drug-shattered nerves...
...only U.S. Army prison in England that was equipped for executions, I had occasion to meet Pierrepoint several times on his professional visits there...
...with the 6833rd Guardhouse Overhead Detachment stationed at Shepton Mallet Prison in England for about six months...
...eccentric millionaire who also had aa interest in a vest-pocket calculating machine. Then young Schoenberner became the Sitzredakteur (Sitting Editor) of the Munich Auslandspost, an unpopular job which meant chiefly that if the owner fell foul of the law, Schoenberner had the privilege of sitting in prison for him. From there, Schoenberner advanced to the editorship of Jugend (Youth), a noted humorous-literary weekly in Munich...
Path Down. His wife's sudden death helped free him. He was permitted to attend her funeral and, flanked by his prison guards, he marched behind her casket through Madrid's streets. More than 60,000 of his followers lined the way, saluting him with clenched fists. Hurriedly, the Government brought him to a belated trial and acquittal...