Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burglar...
...Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Even as Wilde's Algernon Moncrieff invented his mythical friend Bunbury for a social convenience, so Playwright Test Dalton's stockmarketeer invents an opulent "Uncle John" as an excuse to escape from his wife of nights. When a burglar is caught by the wife and poses as "Uncle John" there is a great deal of embarrassment all around, no small part of which is genuine, shared by actors and audience for a play both flat and flimsy...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
...facts gleaned from the books were that the number of pupil hours during 1927 was nearly 1,000,000,000; that the estimated total cost of running schools in 1929 was $131,700,680,89, that the rental of burglar alarms next year would come to $3,691 and that repairs to fuel scales would cost...
...March 1928 True Story, just out, is comparatively clean with such human interest stories as: "Thirty Days to Live," "His Last Moment of Glory," "Wings of Love" (aviators), "The Salvation of a Bank Burglar." It has only four faintly off-color confessions. But the March True Experiences could almost be read at a Sunday school picnic. It has a wholesome girl on the cover, properly clad in a red dress with white collar; an editorial by Mr. Macfadden entitled "Broaden Your Outlook." Among the confessions are "The Girl of the Golden Heart," "MatchMaking Mothers," "When Loyalty Calls." Attempted seductions: three...