Remembered as " The Counterfeit Bank of Niangua, " it had a larcenous president, a crooked cashier, thievish clerks and a board of directors whose names had been lifted from tombstones.
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He wrote : " the name of Associate in Arts has been degraded, probably beyond recovery, by wicked, thievish, and otherwise disreputable institutions . " Harvard responded with a new Adjunct in Arts.
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Prokofiev described this cancan-like material as " thievish . " This theme is abruptly interrupted by the new, slowed-toccata idea from the introduction blaring out triumphantly, a victory cry for the people.
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Shakespeare wrote in his sonnets about women fighting "'gainst Time's scythe " and " Time's thievish progress " by primping and painting _ " fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face ."
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In 1798, Stephen Burroughs, a thievish New England schoolmaster with a nasty weakness for seducing his young charges, found himself in prison in Worcester, Mass . He didn't care for it much, Burroughs wrote in his " Memoirs, " the young republic's first known work of prison literature.
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Baegert took a decidedly sour view of his charges, at one point characterizing them as " stupid, awkward, rude, unclean, insolent, ungrateful, mendacious, thievish, abominably lazy, great talkers to their end, and na�ve and childish " His views as to the extreme simplicity of Guaycura social organization and belief systems have often been accepted as factual, but they may owe something to the missionary's own acerbic personality.
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"This motley, ignorant, bloodthirsty, thievish population live here without a shadow of a government, with no police, no courts and no lawyers; yet they do not cut each other's throats; do not plunder each other day and night . . . It puts strange thoughts into one's head about the mountain-load of government under which people exist in Europe, and suggests we may be overgoverned"
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Pigafetta described the " lateen sail " used by the inhabitants of Guam, hence the name " Island of Sails ", but he also writes the inhabitants " entered the ships and stole whatever they could lay their hands on ", including " the small boat that was fastened to the poop of the flagship . " " Those people are poor, but ingenious and very thievish, on account of which we called those three islands the islands of Ladroni ."
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Regardless of where he landed, Magellan's ships arrived in Guam and was unable to get fresh food as the inhabitants, Chamorros, " entered the ships and stole whatever they could lay their hands on ", including " the small boat that was fastened to the poop of the flagship . " The Spanish crew, however, considered this theft and in retaliation attacked the Chamorros and dubbed the islands "'Islas de los Ladrones "'( Islands of the Thieves ) . " Those people are poor, but ingenious and very thievish, on account of which we called those three islands the islands of Ladrones . " Pigafetta writes,
