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Word: warden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the chief warden came through the gate and posted a notice on the prison door. One by one the waiting crowd filed by to read: "The judgment of death has been executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Ultimate Cause | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Universal) adds another to the staggering total of prison breaks screen convicts have made from Hollywood jails. Though "the technical adviser on break scenes" in this film was a paroled former convict, the picture is chiefly interesting because Victor McLaglen plays a warden with a larcenous streak and a guilty conscience; Edward Brophy plays a sly trusty who finds the warden out; and Master Jackie Cooper successfully continues his graduation out of short pants into juveniles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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