Word: prisoning
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...performance promises to be unusually interesting as Mr. Houdini has been escaping from a variety of bonds devised by members of the audience at Keith's Theatre during the past month, and yesterday, in a bona-fide trial, made his escape from the Boston City Prison by breaking from his shackles and opening three prison doors...
...recently published references to the Mod. Fac. these words occur: "Several of its members, as a result of their acts, might be punished by the College and put in prison by the civil authorities. In consideration of a promise to relieve them of these penalties the undergraduate members of the Med. Fac. have contracted to bring the existence of the society to a close." No description of the proposed agreement could be further from the truth than this last sentence; but it represents a popular misconception that accounts for most of the criticism that has been aroused. It is true...
During the monarchy there had been only two Parisian prisons, but the new regime turned almost every sort of establishment into prisons, and they were all crowded to the doors. The most famous of the prisons was the Conciergerie, the antechamber of death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that...
...married to Mildred and become alderman's deputy. Mrs. Touchstone and Girtred who have now returned from their adventure, arge the father to be merciful with Sir Flash. But Touchstone presses the charge of larceny and Golding is obliged to sentence the knight and Quicksilver to prison. Security is also arrested and imprisoned with the rest. Touchstone is apparently inflexible until Golding by a subterfuge conducts him to the prison where, seeing Quicksilver and the knight sincerely repentant, the old man relaxes and forgives...
...Jeffrey R. Brackett '83, of Baltimore, spoke briefly on "The College Graduate in Charity," at a conference of the Social Service Committee in Phillips Brooks House last night. He out-lined the growth of state boards of charity, prison reform conferences, and other agencies for social work during the last twenty-five years. There are at present great opportunities in charitable work open to college graduates as members of a special corps of trained workers, as managers of charitable institutions and agencies, and as individual workers with individuals. For men who feel an especial interest in this field of work...