Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term shortened by behavior so exemplary that he had become, besides its most famed athlete, the keeper of the prison's zoo and a trusty who had the run of warden Lewis E. Lawes' household, Edwin Collins Pitts emerged from Sing Sing into the centre of a minor national controversy...
...pawn shops, Acosta explained they had been "stolen." In 1930 his wife had him jailed for nonsupport. When that failed to regenerate him, he was sentenced to six months for abandonment. On his release he was welcomed with open arms by his wife and two sons. Said the warden: ''He was the best man we ever had in jail here...
...Ossining at New York's Sing Sing Prison, of 1,371 answers to a questionnaire, only eight convicts said they were in jail because they had been framed by the police, 55 ''declined to go into the matter.'' Warden Lewis E. Lawes said this proved that convicts are becoming more honest...
Luke is seen beside the body of a dead game warden, flees, and wanders all night in a driving snowstorm. When he is taken in by a farm woman who catches him stealing the bran mash she has set out for her chickens he falls into a sickness, later works for a harsh Methodist parson whose daughter he marries, and from then on concerns himself with the gradual accumulation of wealth as a small farmer...
Every day,, pretending to be his sister, Mary Hoover called on Prisoner Quintanilla, found him infuriated but comfortable, hard at work painting a portrait of the warden who was hugely pleased. On top of the excitement of her first Manhattan show, Artist Hoover last week received even better news: the Spanish Government had relented to the point of letting Luis Quintanilla out on 3,000 pesetas bail...