Word: thief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...something perhaps harder than war." He went on to speak of the responsibilities placed on the younger men by the loss of so many lives in the war, saying that "Hundreds of thousands of men must be replaced and horrible destruction made good. When peace comes--like a thief in the night--the shortage of food is certain to continue...
...Said--and She Believed Him" is a long, complicated name for a short and rather familiar type of play. We can all remember "Stop Thief," "Officer 666" and others which do not contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...
...belligerents are equally culpable because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous man and a thief, because they both desire a neighbor's property...
...simply inert matter. Probably food speculators do not reflect on the ultimate consequences when they raise the price of life's necessities. But their lack of thought makes hunger no less bitter to those who are deprived. Personal gain is behind the food speculator and the book thief alike. But the books in the Widener Library are to be shared by all, they are community property, and a good citizen must always think of his community...
Unknown to a great part of the student body, a force of trained men continually patrols the Yard and its precincts, always on the look-out for that ever-present danger, the dormitory thief. The College has maintained a protective force for many years, but under the re-organized system, which took effect last spring, the number of men has been increased and the service made much superior to its former standard. These men guard especially against the suspicious stranger who enters the Yard with something to sell and proposes to enter the dormitories under one pretext or another...