Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING -Lewis E. Lawes-Long &; Smith ($3). Not chance but a childhood in Elmira, half a mile from the New York State Reformatory, brought Warden Lawes to his prison-keeping career. On Saturday afternoons, from a safe distance, the boy watched the Reformatory inmates at work. They did not look very unhappy or dangerous to him. And the uniformed guards were things of beauty, in their way. At 17 he was in an Army uniform himself. Three years of drab post-Spanish-American War service led him to seek a career elsewhere...
...Hampton, housed them in barracks without surrounding walls, built a New Reformatory. He successfully introduced the honor system, even let his prisoners take part in the filming of a military movie, without guards. None tried to escape; and Lawes's fame spread. In 1920 he became Warden at Sing Sing...
...quickest way to get out of Sing Sing is to come in as warden," was the saying in those days. Warden Lawes has stayed twelve years. In that time he has built a new prison, developed sports, introduced, among other things, a flower garden, even a bird house; organized an industrial system that turns out some 70 articles, turns over some $3.000,000 annually. Prison life at best is bad, thinks Warden Lawes, but men are always men. His central idea is to set his prisoners to doing work useful to themselves, instead of simply doing time. Segregation of prisoners...
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing is the May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...contain itself. It managed to listen quietly to Percy Wenrich play "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang "You're My Everything" with Harry Warren, "Charmaine" with Erno Rapee, "Body & Soul" with Johnnie Green, "I'll See You Again" with Noel Coward, "My Song" with Ray Henderson, "Of Thee I Sing" with George Gershwin, "Old Man River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little...