Word: jails
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...excitement a Jew spat on a storm trooper. He got away somehow, fled from house to house, finally hanged himself. Meanwhile the whole town had turned out for a finish fight. A little racial war rammed up and down the streets of Gunzenhausen for hours. Soon the jail was jammed with prisoners, all Jews, and the wounded of both sides crawled home. One, a Jew, stabbed four times, fell on his bed and died...
...dead silence of the German Press, the concussion of that feeble peep hit all Germany. The editors wanted to say something but they did not want to go to jail. They got into print the phrases with which every Liberal German editor has been bursting by saying the opposite of what they meant: "The pendulum has swung from unbridled freedom of expression to occasional overdiscipline. In particular it did not seem necessary to us to keep from the German reader news that he could read in foreign newspapers, at times in the grossest exaggeration and misrepresentation. The complete outlawing...
...people of Peru, weary of the Leguias, rose up under a red-eyed little wildcat of a man named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...
...jail the Leguias stayed until onetime President Augusto was taken ill and died and Son Juan had spent nearly two years in solitary. Sucking on his drink last week Juan Leguia gave his version of the revolution and his imprisonment...
...jail, when my father was gone, I was left alone; the very lights were taken away. I had to use candles. They gave me eight candles during the last year of my incarceration. I lit the candles only to test the food, which I prepared myself, by thrusting a silver knife into the viands. Sometimes as often as twice a week the knife became stained-evidence of poison! If it appeared that nothing contained poison, I then would dress for dinner...