Word: burglarized
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Fruity Booty. In Portland, Ore., John Bribbon reported to police that a burglar had made off with 50?, five theater tickets, and two bananas...
...Jennings, onetime "redheaded terror of the Southwest," now 82-year-old proprietor of a one-acre chicken ranch, went to court in Los Angeles to sue for defamation of character ($100,000 worth). On the Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President...
...mind: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up, and it stuck there." That night, in the teller's cage of the bank, Service wrote his famed Shooting of Dan McGrew aided by the bank guard who fired at him, under the impression that he was a burglar...
Fine Feathers. In Manhattan, a burglar shinnied up a pipe into a department store, got into the men's wear section, became so fascinated with trying on suits that he spent seven hours at it, finally shinnied down the pipe into the arms of the police...
...speech. In a single week 2,000 pictures were removed in 64 special railway container vans-first to country houses and museums; then, after widespread raids began, to the Welsh caves. The caves were air-conditioned, equipped with a single-track narrow railway, and wired with a burglar alarm system...