Word: thief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story goes that a young Eastern lawyer complained to an old Texas judge about the Texas way with crime. "I don't understand Texas justice," said the lawyer. "You will suspend sentence of a convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...
Flyleaf. In Columbus. Ohio, a thief broke into the office of the Northminster Presbyterian Church, pocketed $10.40 from a desk drawer, left a note: "God Bliss You. I'm Sorry But The World...
...ASSISTANT, by Bernard Malamud. An aging Jewish Brooklyn grocer, a holdup and a thief's remorse seem hardly the substance of a good novel. This book becomes one through its tender, realistic grasp of the meanings, small defeats and even smaller victories in the lives of seemingly hopeless people...
Market Crash. In San Bernardino, Calif., as he and a sheriff's officer chased a burglar through his supermarket, Owner Charles R. Barmlett drew a careful bead on the thief, fired his revolver, wounded the deputy in the thigh...
Occupational Therapy. In South Shields, England, after a juvenile court sent a 16-year-old petty thief to a psychiatrist in the hope of finding out what made him steal, the doctor reported that the boy had swiped $2.80 during the consultations...