Word: jails
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...down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation of "Lord" Timothy. Also, turning write addressed the electorate...
...Lewisburg lynchings were executed with the drilled precision of a first-class football backfield. With dimmed headlights and without license plates, a string of automobiles quietly circled the Greenbrier County jail, came to a halt. A group of 60 masked men filed up to the jail door. The keeper was summoned, seized, forced to give up his keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled...
That was the first that Farmer Emerson Salisbury, 73, knew about the jail break that had taken place four hours prior and nine miles away at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth ("The Bankers Institute"). Six men had escaped, dragging spectacled Warden Thomas B. White, onetime Texas Ranger, along with them as hostage. No one knew how they got their arms or passes to enter the warden's office...
...Playwright Gretchen Damrosch Finletter's play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...
...himself. But he is an over-confident confidence man. His one act of outright burglary-the theft of the diamond bracelet-finally has bad consequences. Detectives corner him in his rooms, chase him down a street in automobiles, shoot him with a machine gun. He is last seen in jail, making sentimental overtures to his blonde partner (Joan Blondell...