Word: burglarized
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...room 43, where two visitors were spending the night. These men occupied the window seat in the study. Across the hall, a friend was still studying at a late hour consequently, when one of the guests was awaked by a man fumbling in a coat pocket, he believed the burglar to be this friend hunting for a cigarette, and did not trouble himself further. The culprit was described by the visitor as a dark man, 5 feet 9 inches in height, wearing a light cap and a dark overcoat. He also added that on the way out he heard...
...rooms the thief missed some good hauls. One student had two pocket books, one containing $20 and the other $2. The burglar finding the $2 moved on to the next room. Another who had 75 cents in one pocket and $10 in another escaped as easily as his neighbor...
...learn from the Century Company that "The Gentleman in Pajamas," a novel by Charles Neville Buck, to be published by them this month, has for plot the following situation: A burglar, instead of gathering up availables and leaving the scene of his crime at the earliest convenient moment, settles down to live with his victim while he forces him to liquidate his estate and turn over his assets as fast as they become easily negotiable to the man who greeted him one midnight with: "All I want is all you have." The burglar meets servants, secretary, friends of his victim...
...burglar attempted to burgle the Bureau of International Weights and Measures. He was foiled by the janitor. Within the Bureau building is the Standard Metre and a number of delicate instruments and standards, all made of platinum, iridium or other precious metals...
...developing social responsibility. A thief may steal from an honest property-holder without a second thought, but when all the thieves form a little community of wage-earners within Mr. George's series of enclosures, the point of view changes with surprising swiftness. The enterprising burglar degenerates into the commonplace crook, and the newcomer's statement of "Ladies and gentlemen. I have come to live with you; I am a pick-pocket!" is received with coolness, not to say suspicion...