Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...hats indicate personalities. The stage comedian mimics Easterners, Westerners, farmers, bankers, professors, and yes, college students by a simple change of hats. The holdup man who wears a cap during his office hours, passes through crowded streets unrecognized and undisturbed at other times when his pseudo-respectability is set off by a stiff derby-hat. Humor consists largely in wearing a hat that is too large or too small. "Movie" patrons have learned to recognize Bill Hart and Charlie Chaplin by their hats. Election to political office carries with it the prerogative of a silk hat. Stable-boys take...
...Vanzetti, who has never had a chance to face his accusers, had, however, been previously convicted of an attempted pay roll holdup at Bridgewater in December, 1919. The so-called identification tests at his trial were as fragile as tissue paper. One boy who was never closer than 145 feet to the fleeing men, identified Vanzetti as the 'shot gun' man', though he admitted he had only a fleeing glimpse of the bandit's face. He said he could tell the man was an Italian...