Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lunch hour was over. The convicts-134 of them-sprawled in two long rows stretching from the prison chuck wagon. Four hard-eyed mounted riflemen watched them. Six other armed guards waited near by. The stockade-Cummins Prison Farm in southeast Arkansas-was three miles away. Here were pea fields where the convicts had been working all morning. They were a tough crew, murderers, robbers, rapists, kidnappers-men like Frank Conley, who at 34 had a 21-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; like Percy Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping...
...coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province to school in Odessa; his first brush with Marxism in the seventh grade in Nikolayev; his conversion to the cause after the woman Vetrova burned herself to death in a prison cell; his first arrest in 1898; prison in Moscow, where he married Alexandra Lvovna; Siberia in 1900; escape to England in 1902, without Alexandra but with a passport forged in the name of Trotsky, which stuck; his meeting with Lenin in London...
...return as ordinary refugees. In Brussels pro-German Henri de Man, onetime Minister of Finance and President of the Belgian Labor Party, was rated as the Belgian equivalent of Pierre Laval in France. Leon Degrelle, flashy Führer of the Belgian Rexist (fascist) Party, was released from prison by the Nazis and worked hard to gain power...
Lieut. Koche was quite safe in the prison camp. He had answered at roll call to the name of the man who had escaped, Naval Lieut. Günther Lorentz. Able to speak English almost without an accent, Lorentz was on his way to Montreal. After escaping, he disposed of his camp uniform (brown shirt and blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe...
Dostoevski's life was as subterranean as the human nature he wrote of. As a young writer he haunted the windy corners and foul alleys of hated St. Petersburg, was sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed with murderers & thieves, he exclaimed: "What a wonderful people! On the whole I did not lose my time." While his consumptive wife died slowly, he pursued a wretched affair with Polina Suslova, a wild, rebellious hussy who bobbed her hair, wore dark glasses, never went to church. He lusted...