Word: hid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Dr. Mackaness records his gravest charge against his hero. After devoting twelve pages to the evidence as to how Bligh received news of his arrest, the biographer says sadly, "We can only repeat our reasoned conclusion that in the time of crisis, he funked the issue, and hid under or behind...
...Pete hid out so he would not weaken Slavin's case by testifying. In doing so he leaped from a warm frying pan into some of the hottest fires a contemporary romancer has imagined, was chased by his girls, the police, a large collection of double-crossing friends, including Slavin, who promptly framed him with the crime...
...plot, so intricate that a good deal of the interest lies in following Author Mclntyre's ingenious unwinding of the threads, moves at the pace of popcorn popping over a hot fire. When Pete hid in a secluded rooming house, he found another fugitive there. This pickpocket, when caught with a roll of stolen bills, dropped it in Pete's lap. When he returned for it, after the police released him, Pete poked him in the nose, kept the money. He thereby added another enemy to the horde interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor...
...wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green's head jerked skyward, the crucifix dropped in the dirt. Physicians said that he died instantly...
Rich Long Islanders became jittery as the "summer phantom," a daring jewel robber who has baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley...