Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Resolved, That the Contract System of Prison Labor should be abolished...
...Medicine. As time went on, the teachers in the unions found that their common interests would be guarded better by relying on themselves than by appealing to the other masters, especially as all these quarrels tended to have the opponents of the chapter and Chancellor repose in the chancellors' prison, or to be excommunicated? perhaps both. They appealed for a reverse of the the sentence of excommunication from master after master at last bore fruit. The Papacy was then following out its principles of intellectual emancipation from the rules of the old "regular" schools, and soon recognized the rights...
...their lamenting betrothed in a song from Falka. The girls departing leave them to their fate. Follows a conversation between the pirates in the jail on the right of the stage, and Stubbs in stocks on the left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison-bars and escape, singing a chorus from "Hermanie;" they leave the stage to Stubbs, who sings a gag song written for the occasion by Mr. Pepper, and after some very comic stage business exits. A second scene shows us the interior of a puritan drawing-room, inhabited by cats. Enter...
...brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take his degree, and then to wander again as a physician and propagandist among the peasants of Russia. Another remarkable man was a Jew, from Southern Russia. He had been arrested for publishing a paper, and thrown into prison without trial. He was kept for six months with thirty other men, in a room dirty beyond description...
Military punishment is divided into three classes; confinement to room, extra guard duty, and light prison. The first is inflicted when some unfortunate has failed to sweep his quarters properly, or has wasted his butter at dinner. The crime of smoking is visited with twelve hours of extra duty, while card-playing, or any such heinous offense, consigns the delinquent to prison for a month or two. The Barracks are inspected daily, and an inquisition officer can cause us much trouble. The clothes-bag, for instance, is probably doing duty as pantry and wine-cellar, and may contain a pipe...