Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They fired his imagination. He quit school when he was eleven to sell newspapers and run a kids' crap game-a project which meant paying off the Irish cop on the beat. He soon graduated to sterner enterprise. When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession...
...hampered by rubble-choked streets. Even if it reached the fires, it would have no water to fight with: broken pipes would have reduced the pressure in the mains to near zero. The roaring flames, perhaps stirring up a "fire storm" as they did at a standard-bomb assault on Hamburg, would kill many people missed by the bomb itself...
...stitches had been taken in the first citizen's head), Reardon and Gravelle were led off to the police station, booked and released under $200 bail. Next week when the Canadiens play in Chicago again, they will have a chance to tell the judge all about it. Charges: assault with deadly weapons...
...Games. In Texarkana, Ark., charged with aggravated assault for severely wounding her husband with a knife, Mrs. Hazel Washington stoutly maintained in court: "We play like that all the time...
...fierce sufferings of humanity the musical, like the novel, brings a real humaneness and makes a frontal emotional assault that has strong popular appeal. It is indeed the very pull of the thing that, for want of judgment, helps to pull it down. Thus, though the story has been greatly simplified, the effect is less movingly simple. For one thing, formal primitive speech often sounds stilted when spoken. But on the stage, sometimes a gesture is better than any speech; sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars...