Word: robber
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Rags to Bitchery. Lamiel was to begin her life in an orphanage, become a Parisian courtesan, marry a duke, and die the mistress of a robber-chief. From autumn 1839 to spring 1842 Stendhal sketched the outline of her progress from rags to riches. He described her adoption by a childless couple, her entry as a servant-companion into the household of a duchess, her initiation into the facts of upper-class life, i.e., mingled boredom, bitchery, fear and arrogance. He did portraits of varying completeness of the men in her life, ranging from a Machiavellian, hunchbacked doctor...
Perhaps the next important development of the 19th century was the founding of Radcliffe in 1879. The Annex became an immediate favorite as a disturbance destination; from the ancient bustle to the modern strapless, female trappings have always been prized plunder, with the riotous robber getting as much uplift from the booty as the original owner...
...version of Outcasts concerns itself primarily with a bank robber, the robber's wife, and the gambler, plus considerable window dressing provided by other blizzard-bound characters. It also makes a remarkable value judgment to the effect that bank robbers are a scurvy lot, while full time gamblers are engaged in an honorable if unusual profession. This distinction no doubt will distress Senator Kefauver, but it was calmly accepted by the clientele of the Metropolitan Theatre...
...race riots in India when rioting caused considerable public injury, but police action seemed little different. A poor student onlooker last night had the nerve to mumble something about "Soviet police'--the unfortunate individual was last seen being highjacked toward the Paddy wagon as if he were a Brinks robber. Freedom of speech...
...everywhere. This week Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, 75 miles west of Detroit, exploded. Almost 200 of the prison's toughest convicts went wild in a disciplinary isolation block. Holding four guards as hostages, they wrecked their cell block, smashing everything in sight. Then, led by a robber named "Crazy" Jack Hyatt and an auto thief named Earl Ward, the rioting cons forced their way into other sections of the prison. They captured six more guards, swelled their forces to more than 2,500 with other released prisoners, some from hospital wards for the mentally dangerous...