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A CHIEF of Police who had seen an Officer beating a Thug was very indignant, and said he must not do so any more on pain of dismissal.
"But," said the Officer, still smiling, "it was a stuffed Thug."
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Nobody'll share his slightest care, He classes with thugs and crooks.
"Nobody loves a mil-yun-aire, Nobody likes his looks, Nobody'll share his slightest care, He classes with thugs and crooks."
"Nobody likes a mil-yun-aire, Nobody likes hia looks, Nobody'll share his slightest care, He classes with thugs and crooks."
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They were behind with their rent all the time, but the company was good to them; there was some politics back of that, Grandmother Majauszkiene could not say just what, but the Laffertys had belonged to the "War Whoop League," which was a sort of political club of all the thugs and rowdies in the district; and if you belonged to that, you could never be arrested for anything.
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Thugs went into the corner shop at around 6.20pm and threatened two female employees with a knife.
Knife thugs terror for shop staff
Our story of three thugs who beat up a man on a train, stamping on his head, were let off prison, angered readers...
Soft sentence won't deter vile train thugs; "You say... "
The third thug was a black youth around 13 or 14 years old.
Police make new appeal over thugs' attack
POLICE were last night hunting two thugs who robbed a 78 year-old man in his own home, it emerged last night.
OAP robbed in own home
Bellona's residents (mostly poor and black) live on looted cans of food; there's no economy to speak of, gossip is the most highly valued commodity, and a gang of thugs (eventually headed by the main character, Kid, an amnesiac and possibly Native American poet) runs a haphazard protection racket.
Dhalgren in New Orleans: a classic science fiction novel comes to life in the big easy

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