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Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents:
Alexander Pantages, the millionaire theater magnate convicted of raping a 17-year-old dancer.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way.
—Longreads, 8 May 2018
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
She was born in the Barbican, in about 1584, and died in Fleet Street in 1659, becoming a thief, cutpurse and fence along the way.
—Longreads, 8 May 2018
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“Cutpurse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutpurse. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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