Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For one thing, Kent was dead-he had lost his job, and fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie...
The U.S. was full of people who had never been secret agents, movie starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had...
An old gag tells of a counterfeiter who became so puffed with success that he began putting his own picture on the currency he printed. Husky, 26-year-old Elphinstone Forest Gilmour was not a counterfeiter but a student of entomology whose interest in his subject earned him the right...
This led to the discovery that the museum's own Tmesisternus laterimaculatus, captured 15 years before on an uninhabited New Guinean island, was missing. At Gilmour's home Scotland Yard found 5,141 missing bugs. The hot beetles, insisted Gilmour, had merely been borrowed for further study. But...
"Then you can enter," said the policeman, "but I must search you first." He found a pistol which he promptly took. "I have a pistol permit from your own police chief," Kwon shouted. The policeman laughed. "Nobody except us is going to be armed during this raid," he said. "Enter...