Word: truant
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School of Experience. In Los Angeles, truant officers checking Santa Anita race track found no truant schoolchildren, but flushed bigger game: a hookey-playing Pasadena principal...
...strike, so can we!" shouted one of the kids. Soon there were 1,200 of them snake-dancing through four miles of Jersey City streets. They didn't like a change in their classroom hours. It took the mounted police, the pleadings of teachers, the threats of truant officers and two days to get all the strikers back...
Mickey Finn. In Tacoma, Wash., a truant monkey for three days scampered through treetops, across rooftops, was finally brought down by a banana doped with sleeping pills...
...Little Gangy," Bummy took care of his own problems. When his opponents were too big he clouted them with a fearsome weapon-one of his mother's stockings with coal stuffed in the toe. For entertainment he dropped flower pots off fire escapes on passersby, and dodged the truant officer...
Marathon Hooky. In Brooklyn, Truant Officer Walter O'Leary hunted Hooky Player Louis F. Cianca for three years, finally found him at a blood bank. Ex-Navy Coxswain Cianca had meantime accumulated seven battle stars in the Pacific...