Word: jails
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...referred to a ship carrying a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans as engaged in "domestic piracy." Poet Whittier appealed to Henry Clay (slaveholder) to pay the fine for Garrison's release; but Clay was forestalled by a Manhattan philanthropist after Garrison had been in jail for seven weeks...
Once he was sentenced to jail for conducting a labor boycott; but, after a series of appeals, the Supreme Court held that his was not a jail offense...
CONSCIENCE? A startling performance by Lillian Foster in the patchy parable of a girl who gave up trying when her husband went to jail...
...Convictions under the prohibition law increased by 3,114, with fines increasing from $5,832,389 to $7,487,235, and the average jail sentence imposed increasing from 21 days...
...stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...