19 April 1927 April 18, 2012 Author: Staff Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. Famous Words of Inspiration..."It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." Robert Louis Stevenson — Click here for more from Robert Louis Stevenson Related posts: 5 July 1948 Categories: History Tags: 19 April, 1927