Word: jails
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...three chief accomplices were sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense," death by shooting, which was promptly meted out. Three other accomplices were sent to alternately sweat and freeze in remote forced labor camps. The remaining two jam thieves will spend three years comparatively snug in jail...
...addled way, he gets involved with a lecherous blonde girl (Gwili André) in New York and even tries to divorce his wife to marry her. Suddenly, in court, he experiences a change of heart, admits he has bribed witnesses to testify against his wife, goes to jail for perjury. By the time he gets out, Jim is no longer a tycoon but he still has Anna...
...life by one Rachel Bernstein, but he fell in love with Margaret, continued to argue with her. But the real influence in Theodore's life was the Bulpington of Blup, his romantic evil genius. When the Great War came Teddy Broxted angrily turned conscientious objector and went to jail. Margaret sympathized with him; but Theodore, after a long shillyshally, enlisted, muttering all the catchwords of the day. Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor. With more & more to cover up, Theodore became an almost continuous liar, even...
...soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding with voodoo rites a special silver bullet. The far-away sound of tom-toms told Jones his game was up. With a panama hat on the back of his head, Emperor Jones Tibbett, whistling "Swanee River." abandoned...
...Like many a good Irishman, Francis Stuart happened to be somewhere else when he was born-in his case, Australia. His Ulster-Unionist (anti-Free State) parents sent him carefully to Rugby, England's heartiest school. The inevitable Irish upshot was that Francis Stuart landed in a Dublin jail as a rioting Irish Republican. Against the wishes of both families he ran away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find...