Word: thief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told. "Un Roi de France" and "The Hoss-Thief" are tales of murder and sudden death. In the first, one does not fully sympathize with Pierre in his heroic calm while the flames of the burning building licked his feet. But "then mercifully, he fainted," which, of course, makes his end less horrible. The story of the "hoss-thief...
Again and again our attention is called to the regrettable fact that each of the many libraries thrown open to us is slowly being depleted through the agency of either the thief or the thoughtless. Last spring in a period of sixty days more than forty-five volumes were taken from the Union Library...
...policing of the Library. (In my thoughtlessness I had almost said "our" Library.) This sort of service--secret service--one expects in the distributing stations of large city libraries, where individual attachments between books and readers are characteristically close, and where every person is under suspicion of being a thief until he is beyond the reach of temptation; but when members of the University are honored by the hirelings of the University with a grade of courtesy which would shame a country grocer's bumpkin, and with a gentlemanliness of demeanor which indicates an apprenticeship serving rations in a penitentiary...
...third "Travel Paper of Arminius," is literary chat of a cheerful and graceful sort, showing observation and descriptive skill. "Arlin the Thief" is written in clear, straightforward English but with somewhat inadequate power. In "The Vision of Unfulfilled Desire" the dialogue is not thoroughly effective; but the study of perfunctory married life, made worse by the woman's effort to better it, is well conceived...
...December number of the Monthly, which appears today, contains the following articles: "Is the Interchange of Professors with Germany a Success?," by Professor Kuno Francke; "Arlin, the Thief," by H. A. Bellows '06; "Sonoratown," by W. H. Wright sC.; "The Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill," by H. E. Cory 1G.; "Sea-Mist," by J. H. Wheelock '08; "The Travel Papers of Arminius, III--Concerning a Paradise or Two;" "When Granada Came to Almeria," by R. Altrocchi '08; "On a Sundial," by C. H. Dickerman '07; "The Tale of the Holen Squad," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Vision of Fulfilled...