Penalty Cut

Famous quotes containing the words penalty and/or cut:

    The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “They cut it in squares,
    sometimes it comes
    in little jars....”
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)