Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighth anniversary of Adolf Hitler's coming to power. All day the air waves chorused Hitler's name. There were programs from the hospital room where the wounded Corporal Hitler decided to enter politics, from the beer hall where Hitler built his Party, from the prison cell into which Hitler was thrown when the first march failed, from the window in the old Chancellery where Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of the Reich. The day's climax was a speech by Hitler himself in Berlin's Sportpalast...
...tall, white-haired Poet-Professor William Ellery Leonard (TheLocomotive God, A Son of Earth) came his 65th birthday and opportunity to retire from his chair in English at the University of Wisconsin. Locked in his "phobic prison" of six campus blocks by an ineluctable terror of distance (caused, he says, by a locomotive which roared at him when he was two), there was not much that Agoraphobe Leonard could do about it. Sighed he philosophically: "I plan to go on with my teaching. I feel well. I feel the university needs...
...back, two men silently threaded through the crowd behind him, two strange, grey-coated creatures washed up from the depths of New York City's criminal world. One was Anthony Esposito, 35, a long-nosed, horse-faced hoodlum who had been in & out of New York's prisons and reformatories for 16 years, had once been deported to Italy and sneaked back in. His brother William, 29, had robbed drunks, snatched pocketbooks, done a seven-year stretch in Sing Sing. Their father had served time for forgery. Their brother was in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. for parole...
Real-estate owners in Green Haven, N. Y. (pop. 38) found themselves on the verge of a boom that has nothing to do with defense. Reason: construction of a new $8,000,000 State prison (for Sing Sing overflow...
...uncompromising pacifist, and Minna, the maid, is German. On those counts and because his sermons are earnestly gentle rather than militant, Gordon suffers a good deal: cuts in the street, a dwindled congregation, anonymous letters, a stone through his study window. Minna commits suicide. John dies, of pneumonia, in prison...