Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out of his shower, dripping wet, Peroy noticed the culprit running out of the room. Without waiting to dress he gave chase through the corridors of the Indoor Athletic Building and shouting for aid succeeded in getting nearby students to continue the pursuit. An officer finally caught up with the crowd of pursuers just in time to arrest the culprit after he had led them a merry chase down Mt. Auburn Street...
...gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General Murphy announced last week, "no power on earth" was big enough to block Murphy justice, not even prayer...
...histology and embryology, declared after much study that Paul Revere (though he has generally been blamed) could not possibly have made George Washington's famed, unmanageable dental plates. Reason: Washington had the plates before Revere's dental teacher came to the U. S. from Great Britain. Actual culprit: John Greenwood, Washington's personal dentist...
Further treading on the industry's toes, Dancer Douglas politely explained that the Met was "not singled out as a culprit," that other mutual companies employ the same "election machinery." The swing session was then adjourned until this week, and Bill Douglas journeyed to Manhattan to speak before the annual dinner of Fordham University alumni, there cut some verbal capers of his own: "The convenient and impersonalized use of the corporate device has unquestionably contributed to moral decadence. This has especially been true with the growth of bigness. . . . Individual responsibility before God has no counterpart in the corporate system...
...first two weeks of French mobilization were featured by unholy traffic jams and messes. Aghast, however, was Paris last week to learn that, if war had come, a large, percentage of the capital's population would have lacked gas masks-a fine French scandal for which no culprit or scapegoat had been found up to this week. Meanwhile, energetic, square-jawed Radical Socialist Premier Edouard Daladier was greeted by the French Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence in what he did at Munich, 535-to-75-nearly all the dissenters being Communists...