Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alarm Burglar. In Yonkers, N.Y., a burglar ransacked a house's silver, linen and other valuables, made off with a single prize : the alarm clock...
Ethel Waters, grande dame of the blues singers, had her secretary arrested as a suspected burglar. More than $13,000 worth of jewels and $10,000 in cash were missing from a trunk. "I just tossed the money in ... to store it, and then I forgot about it," she explained...
Rogers, Kent, clothiers, was the scene of a false burglar alarm last night as well as some petty larceny, "The rumbling of heavy trucks" or the vibrations from the Jester's revels set off the sensitive alarm pausing the immediate arrival of the "who-in-hell-do-you think-we-are" police and a crowd of about fifty shifty onlookers...
...Field Marshal Wavell is said to have described the modern soldier in these terms: 'A good soldier must be part burglar, part footpad, part athlete, part gunman . . . and all guts...
...House of Husher. In Manhattan, Burglar Pat Moriarty, in court charged with carrying burglars' tools, refused to plead guilty as a fourth offender unless the court clerk whispered when he recited Moriarty's criminal record. The judge agreed to the arrangement, in a whisper. The clerk questioned Moriarty, in whispers, conveyed each answer to the judge, in a whisper, and finally the judge leaned across the bench and whispered, "I sentence you to 15 years to life imprisonment." Whispered Moriarty, "Thanks...