Word: thugging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, one Patrick Klein (pugilist) last week argued with a bullyboy thug - who fired four shots point blank. One bullet pierced Pugilist Klein's chest, nicked the outer wall of his heart, fortunately for him, just as it was contracting in its beat. Had the heart been expanding at the instant of the bullet's passing, it would have been torn mortally. Last week Surgeon Bernard Friedlander at Detroit's Highland Park General Hospital laid open Pugilist Klein's chest with infinite care not to disturb the even pulsation of the heart, plucked out the imbedded...
...takes the kinks out of the audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap...
...other is that crime cannot pay dividends commensurate with its risk. The yegg at the safe, the thug at the holdup, the gangster in his running fight-always he must have all the luck on his side if he is to escape the gloomy, bitter penalty of the law. So say the advertisements under their challenging caption...
...greatly of a History 1 lecture. Cases have been known, when students showing their innocence of one charge, have been fined on the strength of a dear old statute saying that cars cannot be parked in any part of Cambridge for over an hour. And yet a vicious thug, on July 8, 1924, was convicted of house breaking, and of larceny, but his case was filed...
...police cannot arrest the drunken thug, if they will not stop the plot before it is carried out, we had better form vigilance bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself...