Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomson's life has not always been so peaceful. During World War I he volunteered with the British, flew in the Royal Flying Corps. Shot down in Flanders, behind the German lines, he spent months in prison camps before the Armistice freed him. Deeply moved by the Nazi occupation of Belgium last fortnight, he sat down and wrote some reminiscent lines...
...Eager to help, unable to enlist, an inmate of Southern Michigan State Prison suggested through the prison paper that idle machinery left over from the last war be moved to the prison so that he and his colleagues, in their enforced idleness, could manufacture munitions & armaments...
...cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field's 1840 period plot about the high-minded love of Governess Bette Davis and Charles Boyer which passes into tragedy, prison and ostracism after the thrilling unsolved murder of the Duchess, presumably by the Duke...
...leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript:" 'If I had the wings of an Angel - Over these prison walls I would fly!" Three weeks ago many a Hall County cotton farmer to whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drought, poor cotton prices, piled into his store in response to his ad. First...
...faced, rawboned Uncle Bud Russell, 62, is Texas' prison agent. Armed to the teeth (two six-shooters, two gas guns, blackjack, brass knuckles), he likes to ride his convicts to jail with a submachine gun between his knees, has done so to some 100,000 of them in 35 years...