Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge police were informed of the attempted holdup...
Billy Rose and wife Eleanor Holm got home from a Broadway opening to find that their Manhattan town house had been robbed of more than $25,000 worth of jewelry by three holdup men. According to Rose, the robbers missed $250,000 worth of trinkets that Eleanor had worn to the play. Cracked Billy: "I'm glad Baby had her war paint on tonight." The Ago Khan got some $340,000 worth of jewelry back. Stolen from him last August it was returned mysteriously in Marseille in a package dropped in front of a police station. Seven...
Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...
Stealing money from Brink's is a lot easier than stealing exams from the University Press, so you might as well go back to studying or planning your next holdup...