Word: pickpocketings
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...clubhouse were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler used to be a Bowery pickpocket. From thieving, petty assaults and a stretch in Sing Sing he stepped up into the real estate business. For partners he had a pair of plug-uglies named Max Hassel and Max Greenberg. His real estate business served as a cloak for bigtime bootlegging in New Jersey. By 1931 the Wexler breweries at Paterson and Union City were returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living...
...which the Paris gendarmery is faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches...
...Bronx, the six-fingered hand of Negro Will F. Woodard. a pickpocket with twelve fingers, got jammed in James Tewess' pocket as he slept in a subway train...
...stations of Bucharest. First station visited was locked. After knocking many times H. M. was answered by a gruff voice: "What the hell do you want? Wait your turn!" The aides assisted His Majesty in kicking in the door, discovered the chief of the station house "questioning" an alleged pickpocket by stringing him up by the thumbs. The prisoner, quickly cut down, earnestly announced himself a lifelong follower of King Carol...