Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested reader of TIME there is little that escapes my attention and interest, and on p. 13, col. 3, of the current number (July 1) of TIME, you made comment of the mistake in the arrest of Djenany Bey, the dark-skinned Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, while under the photographic likeness . . . you refer to him as "Egypt's Djenany...
...stupid maid. I cannot remember a time when the cutting of girls' hair did not excite and thrill me. At the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 I joined in the crowds with a safety-razor-blade and destroyed at least two dozen heads of hair, fortunately avoiding arrest although I was almost caught once. Several years later I was an entire Jack-the-Snipper epidemic in Dallas, all by myself, and was in a fair way to go all to pieces when I found the true explanation. At once my weird longings came under control. My hair-fetichism...
...present administration was in power because "too many politicians . . . were involved with Rothstein in his criminal enterprises." Nominee Hylan hinted that the Marlow case would join the Rothstein case as another unsolved murder with a political tinge. Before the week was out, Commissioner Whalen had eight persons under arrest, six as material witnesses, two as oldtime criminals, caught in a "fortified" apartment, to whom the actual murder might be charged...
After two years. Policeman Wensley was made a detective. Courteous to the worst of crooks, he received their respect in return. He was never known to arrest a criminal while he was at a meal. Famed Wensley crime-solutions were...
...apparatus arrived. No arrest was made. The Mayor was merely testing a new device calculated to make life more difficult for false alarmists, who, in New York City alone, call for firemen 8,000 times a year, at $300 a call. When Mayor Walker turned the handle a siren screeched at passersby, a camera on the pole over-head snapped his picture several times for the Rogues Gallery. Photographers pleaded with him to do it again...