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Word: burglars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aptitude Test. In Chicago, heavyhanded Burglar Walter Pernal climbed an outside apartment-house stairway in broad daylight, smashed a window with such a resounding crash that an upstairs tenant phoned police, drank so much liquor in the apartment that he was helpless to resist arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Overbite. In Atlanta, identified as the burglar who robbed the Fordham Pharmacy through the dental plate he dropped on the way out, Walter F. Cooper, 44, remarked disgustedly: "The thing never fit anyway; it was made for me while I was in prison in Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Point of No Return. In Philadelphia, after ransacking the Doering and Beatty Lumber Co. for half an hour. Burglar John Queenan finally found a slip of paper inscribed with the combination to the office safe, opened the safe, found it empty, in disgust telephoned police to come and arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Intruder (Associated Artists) is a happy example of the British talent for murmuring graceful commonplaces. Made from a Robin Maugham novel, Line on Ginger, the picture begins when a stockbroker (Jack Hawkins), home from an afternoon of golf, surprises a burglar (Michael Medwin) in his house. The man proves to be "Ginger" Edwards, a soldier the broker commanded in his regiment during World War II-and a good soldier he was. What has gone wrong with him? The broker asks, but before he can get an answer, Ginger takes French leave.* As the broker goes from one to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Latitude. In Chicago, after he tripped the burglar alarm on the safe of a currency exchange, Burglar Clarence Phoenix, 43, worked on complacently while he listened to approaching squad cars on his short-wave radio, was caught redhanded, explained sadly: "I thought I was in the next block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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