Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar.
Early Start. In Amarillo, Texas, a seven-year-old culprit was hauled into juvenile court for stealing $5 and seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing...
Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from...
Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless...
Burden. In Knoxville, Tenn., the judge bound Neal Edwards to the grand jury for stealing a 100-lb. sack of flour, despite Edwards' contention that "somebody must have put it on my back . . ."