Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...egos. The other day a hungry man addressed a crude letter to 300 names taken at random from the Philadelphia telephone directory, telling them he had a newspaper clipping mentioning their names. He promised to send the clipping for $1. He got a 10% cash response and a quick arrest...
...stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes the anticipated scene in which, to establish his identity, Enrico Ferraro sings arias from Rigoletto at police headquarters...
...many fur neckpieces as he can steal from visitors. There is a girl (Loretta Young) who, facing a five-year occupational school course in hide-curing, runs away one day when her class is making its weekly visit to the animals. At nightfall the girl and the attendant, fleeing arrest for his fur filching, and a small boy (Wally Albright
Third kick was a dictatorship. Dictator Terra appointed his own junta of eight, dissolved Congress and sent police to arrest the Administrative nine. Seven were caught. One, Alfredo Garcia Morales, hid in the Argentine Embassy. Baltazar Brum, facing the end of parliamentary order in Uruguay, met police with a revolver in each hand, wounded two detectives and took refuge in the Spanish Legation. Soon Idealist Brum came out of "dishonorable" hiding and died by his own hand on his own doorstep. His wife stoically carried his body inside. In Montevideo, Brum's death hurt Dictator Terra's prestige...
Henceforth John Doctor may prescribe as much liquor as he pleases for any patient he pleases. But the patient must be bona fide. Otherwise sprightly Mr. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury, may arrest John Doctor, and stern Mr. Cummings, the Attorney General, may throw him into jail...