Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tougher. He stepped up behind Alice, slugged her from behind, grabbed her purse and beat it. Alice straightened up, yelled "Stop!", let go at a range of 75 feet, and for the first and only time in her career killed...
...more had been added to her list: a youth suspected of robbing parked couples, and a sailor who had tried to strong-arm her in a public park, when she was walking her beat. Otherwise, Alice McCarthy's life had taken on a fairly sedate pattern in her middle age. She lived alone in a South Side apartment, went to the opera, studied French and Italian and went to Mass on Sundays. "I like all the finer things of life," she said...
...beat was mostly in dark parks and lonely streets, where she kept an eye out for lost children and old women, female drunks and mashers. Her captain worried about her. "She has to take chances with all those morons," he said. But Alice did not worry. "I feel the revolver is part of me," she explained, primly. "At no time do I feel uncomfortable in darkest streets because I have the weapon I look upon as my friend...
...often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved him dearly, and his brother Ed, a priest, thought he had "a finer than average" spiritual nature...
Critic. In Santa Clara, Cuba, Maria Barbara Perez wearied of her common-law husband's bathtub vocalizing, beat him to death with an automobile spring...