Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife in an attempt to liberate himself. Four times during his stay at Sunbeam he had tried to escape. Once, when being returned in a police car, he plunged into the Halifax River, swam free in spite of handcuffs...
...Maillefert alive in the box) "I said 'Jersey, it looks like they got you in a pretty tight spot.' He made a motion like he was going to hang himself. . . . Almost every day he said he was 'just as well off dead as to stay there and work...
...stay in jail tonight, your worship," he pleaded. "I can't stay in jail. Think of my public! I have to fight Jack Flynn for the Irish lightweight championship tonight...
...nothing broke till the Bounty had left Tahiti. Then one night two-thirds of the crew mutinied, put Bligh and his supporters in a dangerously crowded open boat and let them take a chance on reaching land. Narrator Byam was one of several non-mutineers who had to stay with the ship. The Bounty then returned to Tahiti, where the innocent sailors settled down to wait for a British vessel, while the mutineers sailed off, self-condemned never to see England again, to find an unknown island where they might be safe from pursuit...
...receive reply to satisfaction, enclose cash stop Here have peered at honorable opposition, will fix destiny tomorrow stop Occult art have been employed by Digest Poll to predict income, but money few and distant stop In blue funk stop Rose, felt ill this morning, atmosphere too warm for long stay stop Tomorrow will wish for weather more coolish, proceed to Tigerville to eat curry with laymen stop Will arrive Cambridge midnight, son I Fling accompanies stop Must have $100, depend statement coming. (signed) H. Flung Huey...