Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park, stabbed him to death. Few days later, in dark Morningside Park, another gang robbed, stripped and killed a white man. Mayor LaGuardia, himself a Harlem resident, sent 324 more cops into Harlem to quell its young criminals. Four days later, under the Mayor's very nose, a burglar looted an apartment across the hall from...
...Rushed to the hospital after a traffic accident, Bart Solomon was operated on by candlelight and flashlight. By the same emergency lighting physicians delivered one baby naturally, another by Caesarean section. Storage plants, home electrical appliances, elevators, radio sets all went dead. Set off by the breakage in current, burglar alarms all over the city began to ring. The sirens of police patrol cars added to the weird racket...
Crime. In Meridian, Miss., a gunman demanded $10 of a shopkeeper, got $11, gave the shopkeeper $1 change. In Berkeley, Calif., a burglar who knew his current events stole a silk dress, a silk step-in combination, a silk chemise, five pairs of silk stockings, a pair of satin pajamas, and two pairs of nylon stockings. In Indianapolis, a burglar made off with 11?, left his cold chisel, jimmy and shirt...
Dies leaped up with a roar, took the floor in his committee's defense. Afterwards he collapsed, was carried off to the hospital. The cause: strain from overwork. For rewinding his burglar-alarm committee, Congress coughed up $150,000, the largest Dies Committee appropriation...
...that survives in Welsh blood has been responsible for much of the greatest in English poetry. But Author Powys, a professional Wild Welshman (and proud of it), has never got his wildness quite under artistic control. In his thefts from Homer, Keats, Joyce Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat. The following not untypical sentence should be engraved on the tomb of Krafft-Ebing: "He was witnessing . . . what few men have been privileged to contemplate: namely, the writhings of a lust-demented lady on the breast...