Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss. In Pittsburgh, a thief got into a house-under-repair through a new window, took the window away with him when he left. In Los Angeles, a burglar was frightened out of Bernard B. Cohen's house by the aggressive family...
...prisoners (in this case British) who, under grim and unglamorous circumstances, preserved their integrity as men. One prisoner is a major who forlornly misses each year's Derby. One is a blind Scottish boy who tries to break off with his girl. One is an ex-burglar who learns so much decency that he sacrifices repatriation for the sake of a fellow prisoner. One is a Welshman whose aging wife dies bearing their first child. A corporal, his close friend, embodies most of the sterling virtues of England's Common...
...Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...
...Burglar Alarm. In The Bronx, thieves hijacked Otto Meucci's truck in the night, drove it only a few minutes, quickly abandoned it when its horn short-circuited, arousing the neighborhood with its deafening blast...
Water Haul. In Cincinnati, a burglar climbed a ladder to a third-floor office, found the combination written on the door of the safe, followed the directions, opened the safe, found it empty...