Word: thugging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago thug, in jail in Philadelphia, had his tonsils removed...
...once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest to his family, he voluntarily entered various asylums for "cures," but remained involuntarily. Worst of the lot was the private sanitarium which he entered docilely enough, till he noticed the barred windows and thug-attendants. He thereupon tried to leave, but his board, $40 a week "and extras," was too valuable to the "doctor." Lashed to an iron cot in the canvas sack that was a straitjacket, North 3-1 struggled in vain to escape; and, doped as he was, he did not then...
Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug, shot him dead. Another citizen, halted on Madison Street by the command "Hands up," was amazed to see his assailant fumbling through his own pockets, looking puzzled...
...Last Spring Senator Deneen attended the funeral of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, famed thug and Deneen supporter (TIME, April...