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...Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs, police arrested one Jane Thomas. Next day she paid $5 fine per egg, declared: "I believe it was worth it." Mrs. Hutton remarked: "Wasn't that too bad? But the way of the transgressor is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...pedestrians should have "kept to the left," by command of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini; but until last week the order was never enforced. A young or pretty transgressor would experience no more than a gallant pressure upon the arm from a policeman who murmured mellifluently, "Sinistra, Signora." Usually the pressure and the suggestion were ignored by willful females, stubborn males-until last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Sinistra, Signora! | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...fiendish cruelties" should be allowed to go free, when soldiers who committed what in comparison to the offenses of "Hard-Boiled Smith" were "trivial infractions of the military code" are still serving, time at Leavenworth. According to newspaper reports, Smith has broken parole. If this is true, surely this transgressor against the spirit of fair play should be again apprehended and placed where the perpetrator of such deeds as he committed belongs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNWARRANTED LENIENCY | 10/5/1920 | See Source »

...agitation, it is doubtless as annoying to Germans as it is to the rest of the world. Anything to prod them out of their usual conplacency will be most useful. They may not like it, but with nations as with individuals, the way of the reformed transgressor is hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EBERT RETURNS | 3/19/1920 | See Source »

...Transgressor, Robert Palfrey Utter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Monthly. | 6/4/1896 | See Source »

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