Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...
...figures published in today's CRIMSON on the large number of books stolen from the History, Government, and Economics library in the past two years do not materially startle the undergraduate who has had intimate acquaintance with the library service system...
...Ledge. Four business partners hold a sombre "conference. One of them has stolen some of the firm's securities and the evidence points to the handsome, heretofore spotless Richard Legrange. Bearing in mind the ordeals by fire and water with which savage tribesmen test virtue, the businessmen devise an ordeal by dizziness for Legrange. He must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole...
Last week the police department of New Haven, Conn., was constrained to publish this grave announcement: "Stolen...
...Manhattan, Roger Maloney, 21, apprehended with a stolen automobile, explained that he had taken it because he wanted to drive to Schenectady to vote...