Word: robber
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...gist of Lileya is a love affair between a young serf and a young serfess during some sort of mid-summer's eve celebration. A fat, dissolute, and probably capitalistic robber baron starts the plot rolling by breaking up the festivities, and then deciding that he wants young Lileya as his scullery maid. Serf Stephen runs away to join the "free" (naturally) Cossacks, and Lileya hides in a broken-down water mill...
...student pointed out that one key usually open several padlocks of the generally used. She noted that the robber had left behind such a key. girl surmised that the hinges on back of her locker had been...
...their garage and using the house as a speaker. When he read that people were daubing themselves with instant skin tan, he moaned: "If you can't believe in the sun, what can you believe in?" Psychoanalytic clichés are seldom spared. Once, says Sahl, a bank robber slipped the teller a note saying: "Give me your money and act normal." The teller replied: "First you must define your terms. After all, what is normal...
...Rubber Robber. In Charleston, S.C., after finding no money in the cashbox of the Southern Seat Cover Co., a thief made off with five checks-all of which had been returned because they were uncollectable...
...Named (as was the M'Xaghten Rule) for the defendant in the case: Monte Durham, a smalltime robber and housebreaker...