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General Robertson exhorted: "Make up your minds and stand together against these gentlemen who, with democracy on their lips and truncheons behind their backs, would filch your German freedom from you." He was applauded thunderously. But one Communist deputy stalked ostentatiously out of the meeting...
...fails to filch the goods at this point is lost for good for from then on the exams remain behind lock and key until brought forth on the appointed day of reckoning to serve their purpose...
...dictator does not filch from the public treasury. That would be picking his own pocket. For Trujillo is the Dominican Republic. His personal monopolies include salt, tobacco, employe insurance, beer...
Said Blackmailer Bioff: yes, he knew the defendants well. Seven of them were "The Syndicate" that had helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli...
Steinbeck's paisanos, remains of the original Spanish settlers above Monterey, are a simple, indolent, pleasure-loving lot who live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...