Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Apsley, Conservative, said that "Odin threw it at another god who was making love to Odin's wife. The stone missed the culprit and fell among the Scots...
...over the incident and to offer the "most sincere regrets" of his Government. "Surely," said he, "no one in the U. S. would believe the Japanese people capable of sympathizing with an outrage of this kind " He also said that the police would do their utmost to apprehend the culprit-which they later succeeded in doing...
...study. Across the hall, a friend was still studying at a late hour consequently, when one of the guests was awaked by a man fumbling in a coat pocket, he believed the burglar to be this friend hunting for a cigarette, and did not trouble himself further. The culprit was described by the visitor as a dark man, 5 feet 9 inches in height, wearing a light cap and a dark overcoat. He also added that on the way out he heard the robber saying "46 and 47 next" to an accomplice in the hall. This has been the cause...
...always right". The crowd will support him in a pinch. It is ingrained in the English that the law, which the "bobby" represents, is right, and must be respected. Here, the "cop" undoubtedly represents the law, but the sympathy is too likely to be with the culprit. Evading the law is often more popular than obeying it. And there is a sound reason, if not a justification, for what may be hailed as modern lawlessness...
...delayed marks or press of business may cause the postponement of action for a week or two; and in one extreme case a student had taken his April hours before-being notified that he had gone on probation at mid-years. Mean while the culprit enjoys the feeling of Damocles. Release is equally hard, and often there is a second period of waiting, similarly protracted, and far more irksome and seemingly unfair than the other...