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...except that the men rarely put their hands in their pockets. Old friends who had not seen one another since they were last in service in the same house, met for the first time in years. But butlers had a chance to get off their favorite trade pun: "Whose burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Butlers | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Whose burglar are you?" is the favorite pun in what calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Kidnappers' Week | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

When Pennsylvania's U. S. Representative Charles Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...should not grow angry at his Norman invasion, nor call the special body of armed men. For perhaps all is just as it should be; the burglar merely anticipating a great social reform, the state already beginning to wither away. He should find some consolation in his first constructive step towards the socialization of the means of production, even though the ownership be but multiplied by two; and perhaps he may continue his good work if he will only be so good as to replenish his supply of hens and continue to leave the door unlocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EGGALITARIAN | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

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