Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sardonic farce, its scene is a room in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building, where eight reporters are engaged in covering a murder trial. They have almost succeeded in persuading the sheriff to stage the execution ahead of schedule, in time for the early editions, when the murderer, a meek little fellow, shoots his way out of jail. Hildy Johnson, the most agile of the newsgatherers, captures him by good luck and attempts to conceal him in a rolltop desk until he has had time to scoop the story...
Dorothy is snaked out of her carnival by a Deputy Sheriff, who takes her to his home (where his mother is, so it's all right) to bring her up. They fall out after the D. S. hears her say her prayers in her nightgown one evening, and Dorothy goes off and learns about Life from a California trouper. Next she encounters a polo team and Charley Breene in particular. Charley hangs himself around her neck like the albatross, and she never does...
...Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
...Briand is expected to recommend that Secretary Kellogg sound out the other great powers on the question of ignoring Article X and forming a posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle...
...captured a short distance from the school by residents of the mining town who ; had heard the screams of the school teacher and other pupils, and is being held for the sheriff...