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Shot down in Florisdorf or Chapei Road And now released from prison graveyards...
...World War I the Y did a good job-especially in Russia-of setting up canteens and recreation halls for war prisoners. This time every belligerent country-except Russia-is letting it do an equally good job. And under the Geneva Convention of 1929, which provides for neutral inspection of prison camps to see that they measure up to proper welfare, educational, religious and recreational standards, the Y, along with the Red Cross, has had the added job of reporting on poor camp conditions to both sides. Neutrals, Swiss and Swedish Y-men will do the work among both...
Laura Ingalls' sentence for failing to register as an Axis agent: eight months to two years in prison...
...Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges. Behind them 200 newspapermen, using Darlan police guards as copy boys, waited to send the story of France's shame to the world...
Lester V. Berrey has been at work on this absorbing, 1,174-page thesaurus since 1931. He got special checking help from such experts as Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the underworld. His collaborator, Nebraskan Philologist Melvin Van den Bark, worked out the main outlines of classification and groupings of words. In general these follow Roget but they culminate in 430 highly readable pages on "Special Slang" of various trades, sports and regions. That section alone will probably help more third...