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Word: lima (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three of Dillingers confederates . . . waiting in jail at Lima, Ohio, heard of his escape, speedily dressed in their best clothes so as to be ready when he came to deliver them." (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Your reporting was more facetious than truthful. Directly Dillinger's escape from Crown Point, Intl. was made known to Lima, Allen County authorities, the three confederates were speedily stripped of all clothing except their underwear. It may have been their best underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...Lima, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Pajamas are the preferred attire of gangsters living in Lima's cells. But after Dillinger's escape, his Lima confederates kept their clothes on day and night until their jailors stripped them down to underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Last week a jury at Lima, Ohio condemned Harry Pierpont to the electric chair for shooting the town sheriff in freeing Desperado John Dillinger from Lima's jail last October. Last week in Crown Point, Ind., Deputy Sheriff Blunk and Turnkey Cahoon were arrested, charged with deliberately aiding Desperado Dillinger to bluff his way out of Crown Point's jail fortnight ago with a wooden gun. Last week in Chicago police, chasing automobiles believed to contain Desperado Dillinger, were twice halted by machine gun fire. But these alarms and excursions were less serious to many a politician than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In a Fugitive's Wake | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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