Word: nicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
...country where the swans do live is finally reached then comes the catching and marking of the cygnets, no mean task as anyone can discover by rowing a boat around a pond in pursuit of a small duck. Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must...
...EATER OF DARKNESS-Robert M. Coates-Macaulay ($2.50). "To My Father and Mother, Nick Carter . . . ex-Mayor Hylan, Gertrude Stein . . . Oleg Skrypitzine . . . Gerald Chapman, Harold Loeb, The New York Times . . . and Fantomas this book is affectionately or gratefully dedicated." Author Coates lives in Manhattan's Chelsea at the end of a disconnected telephone-wire, and it is in Chelsea that his story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals...
...paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings...
Last week, still in jail, Nick Keart had the unexpected pleasure of meeting the Master of Rancocas at breakfast. Turning to him, the bookie said...