Word: thief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIRS: - My room-mate, W. L. Webb L. S., had $25 stolen from his locker in the gymnasium today. This sum represented more than 100 hours work; and he had collected it toward paying his term bill. It would be a very heartless thief who would take money under such circumstances. I hope he will return...
...thief entered the University Boat House on Thursday and stole quite a sum of money from the lockers of the class crew...
...laying ourselves open to the charge of upholding as a principle of our university life one which is worthy only of a band of thieves: "From any outsider steal all that thou canst-but woe unto thee if thou stealest aught from thy brother thief...
...less in the relation of valets-de-chambre to the age in which they live, and whether there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal as well as a spiritual being, the element of humor evolved by the contrast puts...
...time for lectures and recitations? It is nothing less than thieving. The man who thus runs away from the class room, steals time from the class room, steals time from the instructor. Moreover, his exit from the class room is after the manner of the escape of a thief from prison. His motions are hurried, he always waits till the instructor's face is turned away and then he bolts as any thief would do. His face has stamped upon it that expression of conscious guilt, that evasive, sneaking, look, which is perfectly unmistakable. The difference between this thief...