Word: thief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House Music Society which had started staging production in 1938, followed up its tentative universal of Pergolesi's with a spirited and well-oiled performance of Menotti's The Old Maid the Thief, under the direction of Richard B. Hines...
Died. James F. ("Boston Billy Williams") Monahan, 62, successful jewel thief whose birthstone was diamond and whose loadstone was high society; of a kidney ailment; in Worcester, Mass. A quiet operator in the Roaring '205, Monahan mingled gracefully with intended victims on the ballroom floor, later climbed second-story ladders for a lifetime take of $5,000,000 (insured value), but died a pauper because he couldn't get an honest job after 31 years in jail...
...congratulate the American Government for reserving such a splendid reception to Mr. Lumumba. Humanity is indeed no idle word any more in the U.S.; for a Negro, thief and man responsible for the violation of hundreds of women is hailed with all honors...
...polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young Ike-o served an apprenticeship as sneak thief, pimp, and hanger-on of Catfish Gedunsky, a small-time politician, until the army drafted him before the start of the Korean war. Months later, he was out again on a dishonorable discharge, but dressed up as a paratrooper and Claiming a hero s wel come back on Mechanic Avenue...
...role. In the case of Falstaff, surface bulks large, and Berry satisfactorily pads himself out and gives us the lovable fat knight. But he does not attempt the more difficult task of showing us Falstaff in all his unlovely reality--he is, after all, a coward, a thief, an abuser of the right of conscription--and after making us realize all this, bringing out the spirit that still makes him "sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff...