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Word: arrest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faced friend from the Folies Bergeres with gross, pursy mouth and smudged eyes; apaches that glare and glide in the galvanic paint as if rehearsing for a cinema; a group posed, with the sterile absurdity of wax figures, about a table; a bristling gendarme, unable to decide whether to arrest a reveller or have a drink with him; a deputy compounded of a too-small black hat and too many brown whiskers; a lady with a green shadow upon her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toulouse-Lautrec | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...police cannot arrest the drunken thug, if they will not stop the plot before it is carried out, we had better form vigilance bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself...

Author: By "alexander Engel.", | Title: Band of Cambridge Gangsters Pursues Him, Declares Herr Engel in Appeal to Law and Order to Foil Their Plots | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...first step to be taken was the arrest of the four brothers Barmat. Preliminary investigations showed that wholesale corruption involving several prominent Socialists had been practiced. Monarchist guns barked their medley of jubilation. The Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Scandals | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...only method which will stop crime consists of these three principles, certainty of arrest, promptness of trial, and a prison system which reforms the criminal. The method now in use in various prisons, to create such a prison system, was suggested originally by a criminal himself. It is the Mutual Welfare League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSBORNE WANTS NO CRIMES PUNISHED | 2/12/1925 | See Source »

...vehicular biped escaped but the Cadi gave the police a detailed description of him, and his arrest was considered merely a matter of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sheik Shocked | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

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