Word: manhunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posse of 80 Wyoming and Montana law officers set out after Earl Durand. They moved warily. They knew he was more than a match for any of them hand-to-hand or at far rifle range. The law calculated Wyoming's greatest manhunt in years might last a while...
Charlie Chan on Broadway (20th Century-Fox). The widely-traveled, slant-eyed sleuth (Warner Oland) in his 15th manhunt...
...characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford a gossip circuit between the Cathedral and the town-a female psychiatrist belonging to the "generation of blue-stockings who were defined as women who were no longer ladies, but had not yet become gentlemen," a neurotic old maid on a manhunt, uninhibited servants. It is a lay character also who brings about Canon Carmichael's fall-a beautiful, intelligent German girl who marries a Silbury business man. When the Canon meets her he turns pale and mutters that she reminds him of someone. The reminder is of a German peasant girl...
...manhunt tightened around Buenos Aires, where Pin Head Gordillo's lieutenant, one Antonio Capriolo, was still at large. Every car entering the Federal District was stopped and searched. The newspaper Critica scooped its competitors with a "life size" portrait of Baby Pereyra Iraola. Suddenly in a crowded Buenos Aires square, searching police caught sight of Antonio Capriolo, opened fire over the heads of terrified passersby. After a brief duel Public Enemy Capriolo escaped...
...head a straw hat, on his arm a stick, in his breast pocket a handkerchief, at his throat a red cravat with large white polka dots, the chief police officer of the U. S. Senate last week set out upon a manhunt. Last year Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney tracked down through a fairyland of misadventures Lawyer-Lobbyist William P. MacCracken, one-time Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, helped to have him jailed for ten days for contempt of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.). Now Sleuth Jurney, on behalf of his Senatorial masters...