Word: warden
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...writing that Frederick Rath has given it. The audience are asked to consider themselves visitors at Sing Sing prison who have been invited to witness the tryout of a new drama. Among the spectators is "Governor Moore" (onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was there on the opening night) and "Warden Ross." Although the Governor repeatedly tries to have the show stopped, the warden and a young woman whose brother is sentenced to be electrocuted next day persuade him to see the thing out. As the little play within a play unfolds, like Hamlet's ruse to catch the conscience...
...Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...
...active politician, he was chosen Mayor of New York at the age of 34, later collected its taxes, dispensed justice from its supreme court. Outside of political office hours, he piled up a fortune as a merchant at the northeast corner of Pearl & Broad Streets, served as senior warden of Trinity Church, bought land in what is now Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson River north from the Croton River and "a day's journey" [20 mi.] eastward to the Connecticut line, he built himself a fort...
Further to gain favor with the authorities, Prisoner Bell next day warned the gaol-warden of a plotted escape by Prisoner William ("Blackie") Lenhardt, murderer, and two accomplices. Searchers found the bars of Lenhardt's cell sawed, a loaded automatic pistol...
...Three! has for its principal character one Nordson (Arthur Byron, warden of The Criminal Code), motor tycoon, whose young U. S. guest has secretly married a taxidriver. It takes Mr. Byron upwards of an hour and a great deal of telephoning and ordering about to get the driver transformed into a gentleman financier, suitable to the young lady's parents, whose arrival is imminent...