Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clara Phillips, famed "hammer murderess" doing 35 years in California's San Quentin Prison, lost a chance for parole when caught flirting with a Los Angeles burglar who delivered dental supplies to the women's quarters...
Except for the name on the cover there is little to distinguish Eye Opener from Whiz Bang. Most jokes and pictures in the July and August issues are based on: 1) girl walking home from automobile ride; 2) burglar under old maid's bed; 3) husband surprising wife with male visitor; 4) iceman (plumber, repairman) and complaisant housewife...
...Chicago. Nicholas Perisich went to his bank, withdrew $10,000. Next day the bank failed. "I was just lucky," said he. Lucky Nicholas Perisich locked his $10,000 in an old trunk from which it was soon removed by a burglar...
...provide a background for Colman's savoir faire, Hecht & MacArthur made him a patrician burglar seeking what seems a most unlikely sanctuary in a ruined castle on the Algerian desert. He reaches this stronghold by making off with a fancy auto in which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with...
...burglar entered the Wheatley Hills, L. I., home of Executive Committee Chairman Elisha Walker of Transamerica Corp., and made off with jewels worth...