Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lures a company of glinty-eyed weekenders to its shores with tales of buried treasure. Two murders are done, everybody suspects everybody else, while the audience keeps its eye on the shifty butler. Finally a character who might easily have been an innocent bystander is shot down as the culprit. A thriller with so pat a formula is usually expected to move posthaste off the Broadway boards, but with the guidance of respected Play-Picker George Francis Abbott, this one, blackouts, screams, rowdy humor and all, seems likely to remain for a time...
When dealing with youthful breakers of minor laws, a not uncommon practice of pious U. S. judges and magistrates is to suspend punishment, put the culprit under the presumably healthful influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text...
...urchin writes a love letter to the richest little girl in his class, who haughtily hands it in to teacher, who sends the culprit to the principal, whose amused understanding helps open the urchin's eyes...
Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...
...these maximums, he is fined $500. Last week a parallel regulation for truck drivers was underscored as Magistrate's Court in Flushing, L. I. brought in the first conviction under a new State law forbidding truck drivers to drive more than ten hours in any consecutive 14. The culprit was one Joseph Simon. Inspector Samuel Sussman of the Department of Markets trailed Driver Simon on a 16-hr. trip with only three brief stops from Long Island City to Pottsville, Pa. and back. Declaring that the law's prime purpose was to stop the practice, not punish...