Word: thief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...
...YORK-Fuchrer Fritz Kuhn, who made merry with funds of the German-American Bund, was sentenced today to 2 1/2 to 5 years imprisonment in Sing Sing as "an ordinary small-time forger and thief," at a hearing which forecast perjury charges against other Bund officials who justified...
...brown face wearing a beard for the first time (no one ever heard him seriously explain why), Lincoln arrived in Washington "like a thief in the night," with one companion, his friends having sent him on ahead to escape a mob in Baltimore. At Columbus on the way he had said in a curious, trance-like speech: "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country...
...story published in George W. Clarke's column, "Man About Town," described the thief as "a man in clerical garb" seen, but not disturbed, by attendants...
Patron saint of those condemned to death is St. Dismas, the "Good Thief," who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took him up, wrote an annual piece about him (TIME, March 6). Last Sunday Most Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., laid the cornerstone of the first U. S. church dedicated to Dismas. Its location: inside the north gate of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. Prisoners...