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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been set in sound, either (a) by a burglar, who for a considerable period after the crime amused passersby in back of the store by flicking on and off the light in four-four time and knocking over chairs as accompaniment while he was waiting for a chance to escape, or (b) by mistake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRIGGS & BRIGGS FEATURES NEW 'BURGLAR-ALARM SUITE | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...special reception awaits Flyer Dahl in Los Angeles where two deputy sheriffs announced last week that they had warrants for his arrest on three counts of forgery allegedly committed in October 1936 while he was still on parole for a similar crime in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Reprieve | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...case had used its power to conduct a criminal rather than a civil action. "Since they have chosen to institute a criminal case," stormed Wild Bill, "they must be bound by the rules that our Constitution has prescribed in order to protect the defendants when they are accused of crime. Now, an essential element in this case is the question of intent: did these men have a guilty intent in what they did? And it isn't sufficient alone ... to show that there was written approval, or statutory approval. There is the question of instigation; there is the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mamma Spank | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...with great bravado, and his many unsuccessful ones in which he shows himself great oven in defeat make him a character to be long revered in the minds of his readers who share with him all his hair-raising and many highly entertaining experiences. All Trolley's "companions-in-crime" stand out for the individuality and we laugh with them at their hilarious escapades...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

...spread swiftly throughout the city that Homer Martin had pulled a pistol on his own men, the milling crowd outside the hotel grew so big that police were called to disperse it. Rumors spread that Homer Martin was setting the police on his own men-a more heinous labor crime than pulling a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Purge & Pistol | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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