Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...Washington, D. C., Gaspero Lucchesi, grocer, beat off an armed burglar by pelting him with pickles, pies, fruit...
...Gentleman of Leisure. The diamonds are stolen again?no, beg pardon, its pearls, this time?three strings of them?one genuine and two artificial. An incredible burglar says " demm" and " dese" and " dey " on the slightest provocation. Fashionable life at Bayshore is full of butlers. Sigrid Holmquist is very pretty. Jack Holt has a nice mustache. A villain is known by his white, white spats, etc. Which may sound incoherent, but is as faithful a report as possible of as chaotic a cinema inanity as has flickered out the storehouse for some time...