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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mouthpieces | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Rochester, N. H., a midnight prowler awakened a 15-year-old girl by tickling her feet, was jailed for breaking and entering and for "tickling the feet of a minor without her consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...sorry, I must be in the wrong room," apologized a slight curly-haired prowler to Dewey K. Ziegler '41 when the six-foot Yardling was aroused in the dead of night a month ago by sounds and light in his room at Wigglesworth Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Discovered in Wigglesworth Room by Inhospitable Freshman | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

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