Word: prowler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mystery of the week--who was the prowler in the ship's store? Not until the operator had turned in several complaints about the Midshipman who persisted in coming behind the counter; not until she recognized a painting of "The Old Man" in Baker Library; not until then, was the mystery solved...
Presence of Mind. In Maplewood, NJ., Patrolman Richard Schneider was suspended for neglect of duty. His landlady had waked him up, told him a prowler was outside. Patrolman Schneider had immediately phoned for the police...
Revisitor. In Portland, Ore., for the second time in a year a prowler broke into The Wee Taverne, rifled a pinball machine, ate a banana, drank a bottle of pop and left, undisturbed by the watchdog...
...Nothing. In Olean, N.Y., Patrolman George Forrest asked a prowler what he was doing. Said the prowler innocently: "Nothing. Just trying to steal some wood and iron...
Pierre Laval, once chubbily greasy but now haggard, showed reporters a dented cuff link he said had deflected his would-be assassin's bullet last August. Meantime guards arrested a prowler with a knife on Laval's estate near Vichy...