Word: snooper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boylston Reading Room was the site of the latest escapade by Local Public Enemy No. 1, known as Snooper Man, who returned to his diabolical pastime in the small hours of yesterday morning after his examination period respite...
...morning last week the Crimson whooped: "MYSTERIOUS 'SNOOPER-MAN' CAUGHT RED-HANDED." Supporting its headline was a photograph. Pictured at the Lowell House bookshelves, with a pair of books in his hands, was Joseph Lyford. The Crimson's story: Hidden in the Lowell library night before, a Crimson photographic candidate had seen Lyford unlock the door precisely at 12:10 and begin reversing books, had snapped his camera...
...mysterious Snooper Man, phantom Lowell House marauder, left his mark last night in the Bellboy library for the second time in a row, completely baffling a police force of tutors, yard police, and janitors which has been trying to unmask the culprit...
...yard police staff has as yet no definite suspects in mind, but is pursuing the trail of the Snooper Man in relentless fashion. One tutor threatened dire punishment to the guilty one when finally apprehended, declaring "By golly, we'll string him up by the thumbs...
...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...