Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world has taken it at its self-valuation . . . always with the same result: political students . . . exposing such frightful social evils . . . Parliament ignoring them as long as possible. . . ." Of Marx's Das Kapital: "Little Dorrit is a more seditious book . . . All over Europe men and women are in prison for pamphlets and speeches which are to Little Dorrit as red pepper to dynamite." Said Shaw's literary executor, Dr. F. E. Loewenstein, in birthday tribute: "We have not yet heard the last of Shaw. He might still be hanged as a rebel or canonized as a saint...
...always, old Jim Horner, in his house at Merthyr, is sticking up for his son. Last week, putting his worn velvet slippers carefully on the blacklead fender before the fireplace, he declared stoutly: "They've had our Arthur in prison four times-but he never did do anything wrong...
...Blanchard & Glenn Davis, the touchdown twins, doing time on the Great Rock Candy Pile, where they are making a movie for Paramount, had one of those prison-type pictures made. They will soon have to give up sweets, though, to play with the Eastern College All-Stars against the professional New York Giants...
...massive canvases which Allston prized most, and which his own age most admired-such ambitious subjects as The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison-seemed merely pretentious. Modern critics were impressed by the classic cleanliness of his drawings. They liked the grace and casual strength of his nudes (see cut), which Allston had sketched simply as studies for larger pictures. And they warmed to the easy, affectionate handling of portraits like that of William Ellery Channing and aging Benjamin West...
Episode: How a prisoner thought so passionately and long about the girl who was waiting to marry him when he came from prison that his love burned out and led to her suicide...