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judgement, n. - the action of trying a cause in a court of justice

Following up on a previous post, James Brubaker of Great Falls was sentenced yesterday to 2 1/2 years in prison.  One good thing that came out of this was the discovery of a blog entirely about book theft and book-related crimes (even if the author does diverge every now and then) called Upward Departure.  The […]

patsy, n. - a person who is easily taken advantage of

Another one! Something about the summer that brings out book thieves.
So you work at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, and one day a swingin’ 50-something dilettante bedecked in expensive clothes bought by mommy drops by to ask you the value of his “friend’s” tome….which turns out to be a hot First Folio […]