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Word: arrested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January his friends were shocked to hear of Louis Greenfield's arrest for manslaughter. He had called in police and showed them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Friends & Foes | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...culprit running out of the room. Without waiting to dress he gave chase through the corridors of the Indoor Athletic Building and shouting for aid succeeded in getting nearby students to continue the pursuit. An officer finally caught up with the crowd of pursuers just in time to arrest the culprit after he had led them a merry chase down Mt. Auburn Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 STUDENTS CHASE CULPRIT WHO STEALS $63 FROM PEROY | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Ayer is proved guilty, "Mary Doe" stands to make some $15,000-one-quarter the duties & penalties assessed by the U. S. The U. S. Attorney's office refused to identify Mary, but said she was not the accused's maid, as was the case in the arrest of Mrs. Elma Lauer, wife of a New York Supreme Court judge, who went into detention for a three-month term last month. Mrs. Lauer's maid got about $10,000 for informing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mary Doe's Dowager | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...vulgar arrest attention with say; the more vulgar with listen; the most vulgar with lookit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Don't Say It! | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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