Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from her French Academy shelter by ruthless wooers, when Stone, the elder, swoops along in an airplane, hanging by his heels, and flips the lass into a heavier-than-air-haven. Loud applause-for sweet Dorothy, her still agile ancestor, and Mr. Dillingham's sumptuous effects...
Discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week centred about the mail truck hold-up at Elizabeth, N. J., in which a Government employe was killed and $300,000 worth of registered mail was stolen. Postmaster General Harry S. New arose with a battle cry: "If it takes the Army and Navy to do it, the United States mails must be protected and the lives of postal employes safeguarded...
Frenchmen were vexed last week when thieves entered the Musee Condé at Chantilly and stole three million dollars' worth of jewels belonging to the State. Most valued of the stolen gems is "the Grand Condé," a pink heart-shaped diamond measuring more than half an inch across...
...they were interred, their stealthy removal from the Holy City, and the adventures of the pious thieves in their conveying of these relics to a church not far from the court of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle. The miracles wrought by the relics, and even by portions of them stolen from the thieves during their journey, fill out the narrative...
...beer route flowing and the political machinery of Cicero running. At the last election 20 workers of the anti-Caponi party were kidnaped, slugged, hidden away. Many voters were beaten up as they entered or left polling places. Street fights were staged. Half a dozen ballot boxes were stolen. Clerks and judges of election were intimidated with revolvers. Two men were killed, and finally, at 6:00 p. m., when all was beginning to be calm again, ten car loads of detectives from Chicago descended upon the town, dashed down a street crowded with factory workers, opened fire on James...