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Word: burglars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Required Reading. In Atlanta, a burglar ransacked George Word's home, filched a copy of Forever Amber, left it under the pillow of next-door Neighbor Sally Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Briny Deep. In Tulsa, a burglar moseyed around a market, stepped on a weak spot in the floor, dropped into a. 60-gal, pickle barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Dorothy Lamour, like Hedy Lamarr a week earlier (TIME, April 29), got debaubelized. While she was visiting Baltimore, an auto burglar got away with some $26,000 worth of her jewelry, a $1,500 fur coat, 36 pairs of stockings. Unmolested: 15 other pieces of luggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...before he got into the service, He was a bum when all is said and done. He would beat his ma and dad For suggesting it was bad To be a burglar on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Surgeon de Souza explained: too much time had elapsed between the injury and the operation. Hopefully, he offered to carve a new nose from José's hip and graft it on his face. José shook his head, he murmured: "Perhaps some day I will kill that burglar. When the judge asks me why, it will be as plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: As Plain As . . . | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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