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...weight. We have been using the plan for more than 15 years and it has had an amazing effect on discipline. Until five years ago it was the practice of the poorer boys to band together and actually waylay the children of wealthy parents and steal their lunches, fruit and money. The last time one of our boys was beaten and robbed ... I rounded up the ruffians and made them put on the eight-ounce gloves with boys of their own weight. That ended the banditry. Of course, the effect is entirely psychological...
...Dirty cheats, editors. ME, constant reader. ME, the public. I want to be thrilled, tickled with tragedy. They rob me; steal the stuff my emotions eat for breakfast. Do you know who that is-Nathan S. Leopold...
...result, the stories are good stories. The circus people love and hate, give and steal, swear and sing with inflections nearly as much their own as Mr. Tully's. If the real Moss-Haired girl, half Swedish, quarter Indian and quarter Irish, did not actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube...
...dead steal is the sincerest form of flattery...
...book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg...