Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their eruptions into new things. Says Stalin: "The material life of society . . . is primary, and its spiritual life secondary, derivative." An example (not Stalin's): in the U.S. frontier days, a man's life depended on his horse. Therefore, to steal a horse was a capital crime; tree gallows were handy for horse thieves. The material conditions created a deep feeling...
...German, French and English. When young Whittaker was three, his family moved to Lynbrook, L.I., where Mrs. Chambers raised chickens and vegetables to piece out the family income. As a child, Chambers slaughtered fowl and peddled vegetables. He was a boy of insatiable curiosity who read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment at eleven, and wandered on solitary walks through the woods, which he loved...
...Manhattan's Daily News, which has called a good many people a good many names, joyfully hailed a decision by Maryland's Judge Edward S. Delaplaine that it was not a crime to call a man a screwball. Cried the News: "Hereafter, if a rude neighbor or stranger gives you a dirty look, and declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity...
There will be no more Crime in 1948. It returns January 3, however, with an out-sized issue commemorating the opening of Lamont Library...
Severity of sentence depends on how fully a defendant realizes the nature of his crime, and an ignorant man may get off lightly while more extreme punishment is meted out to a well-educated man, Berman continued...