Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain complained that the mountain air at the fortress of Portalet in the Pyrenees was too cold for an old lifer like him. He was moved to the prison colony on the He d'Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay...
...Lomaxes discovered that a Negro folk musician would sing either religious or "sinful" songs, but seldom both. To find the "sinful made-up" songs they had to go where there were plenty of sinful Negroes-the State penitentiaries. On a Mississippi prison farm Convict Joe Baker (alias Seldom Seen) told them: "I never had been in no trouble wid de law . . . but one fellow kept messin' up my homely affairs, so I blowed him down." Then he sang...
Among the heating elements used were four "very good-looking, clean, young" gypsy girls from Ravenbrück prison camp. Stripped naked, they were wrapped in the same blankets with the moribund victim. Goring's plan - if their warmth proved therapeutic - was to outfit Nazi rescue vessels with similar warming units...
Huey put L.S.U. on the map and underlined it in red. With 8,500 students (up from 1,600), L.S.U. became the South's second biggest university.* Then in 1939 "Jimmy the Stooge" Smith was convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to 24 years in prison. (He was pardoned this spring...
Major Charles Boxer, freed from a Jap prison camp and from his ex-wife in England, sailed for the U.S. and Author Emily Hahn, who told the world in her autobiography (China to Me) that Boxer was the father of her four-year-old daughter. Said he, before leaving Hong Kong: "It would be much better if we were married . . . more convenient when staying at hotels." Said she, in Manhattan: "I think we'll try for one more...