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Word: prowler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed prowler, described as "balding" and "about 65" made good his third escape from his latest nocturnal visitation to Kirkland House Sunday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prowler Outdistances Trio for Second Night | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Mattlin reported that the same thing had happened the previous night, but that on that occasion his shouts had not awakened his roommates in time for them to see the intruder. A man answering to the prowler's description was seen leading two persons down a street with their hands high earlier Friday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prowler Outdistances Trio for Second Night | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...humanitarian, a friend of the people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unaffected Great Man | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

They quickly took the prowler in two and returned to the station. The arresting police were uncertain as to how the student managed to negotiate the climb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pajama Clad Girls Flee Harvard Man Perched Upon Cabot Balcony | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

John M. Browder '50, one of the occupants of Matthews 2, reported that he had been awakened by the prowler's noise. He entered the suite's living room and found a Yard policeman detaining the intruder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prowler in Yard Identifies Self as Councilman's Son | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

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