Word: daybreak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
...please, the "baron robbers" this time added an innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels to all women who consented to be their dancing partners. At daybreak police arrived, found sleepy guests, no bandits. Old Bombings. Into the swimming pool of the Lakeshore Athletic Club landed a bomb which shattered windows, blew out part of a wall, sent guests scurrying. Police found no bomber. . . . A bomb went off in the doorway of Broker Charles H. McCarthy...
Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...
Long before daybreak, the federals appeared in three columns. Right and left closed in on Jiminez like a nutcracker, while the main column under General Almazan himself pressed straight forward. It was impossible to see. A thousand crashes which left the eardrums ringing, and the darkness burst into points of flame. Artillery, machine gunners and riflemen banged away at the opposing flashes. The rebels, with three lines of trenches, held out bravely to the dawn and through the heat of the ensuing...
...cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice for his spearhead of beauty, and set out upon a raging sea, heroic in a catboat. At the moment of wreck he suddenly realized the folly of his romanticism and grabbed a drifting spar. At daybreak he was rescued by contemptuous fishermen. And so to bed with a cold and a fright, the disillusioned young...