Word: kleptomaniac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks." A female Washington employee of Air France was robbed twice in one day. Purses, wallets, postage stamps and petty cash are fair game, with office machines and TV sets running a bulky second. Occasionally, of course, the theft is an inside job, though most experts believe that the kleptomaniac junior exec and the light-fingered charwoman (a much-maligned breed) are the exceptions. Guido Mattei, Chicago manager of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, says: "Sneak thieves do a thorough job of hitting downtown office buildings, and we have found that a good 40% of these prowlers...
...passion or loneliness. In her Old Folks Home, which was inspired by a nursing home her 81-year-old father was once in, the old couples sit close together, but each person has withdrawn into a world of his own until the whole scene seems suffocated in silence. Her Kleptomaniac, which could so easily have turned out to be mere sentimentality, was inspired by something that happened when she was working years before in Woolworth's. A prim old lady was caught one day stealing a tiny bottle of cheap perfume. What Painter Gikow put on canvas after...
...approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...