Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With exams only a couple of weeks away, despairing Miss Sternberg has been staying awake nights trying to figure out how to get in touch with the burglar. At length a solution came to her, and right out of Professor Friedrich's course. Recalling that almost everybody reads the papers, she informed the Boston journals yesterday of her misfortune. Now all she can do is trust in the power of the press, and hope the old meany can read...
Said Assistant District Attorney Murray I. Gurfein: "The union is to Scalise what a jimmy is to a burglar...
...burglar-catching window which drops, catches the burglar around the middle when he is halfway over the sill...
Confounded by gadgets, Mrs. Moore hopes some day to mistress her home. Until then she must put up with a radio loudspeaker in every room, lights flashing when the front door opens, burglar alarms going off when certain rugs are trod on. An 1899 De Dion Bouton, one of her husband's nine cars, is stored in an attic...
...first four stories are ancient history; 1) a martyred pathfinder, before 7000 B.C. prototype of Osiris, of Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever...