Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posse. In Roswell, N. Mex., Ranch-woman Mrs. C. A. Marley strapped on her .38, tracked down and caught the mere male who had stolen her favorite horse, delivered the offender, hog-tied, to the sheriff...
...months, Scotland Yard's sleuths followed a shimmering trail of 1,600 butterflies that led from Australia to England. They were stolen from three Australian museums, and much of the thief's bag of exotic loot was irreplaceable. Among the missing butterflies were specimens rare beyond price-an Adaluma urumelia, silky white tinged with blue; an Ogyris zozine splendida, the only one of its black and metallic-blue type ever known to have been netted; several Diana Moonbeams, whose dull purple shading excites collectors just as a light excites a moth...
...Brasher Doubloon (20th Century-Fox) is a rare coin that has been stolen from a dreary Pasadena mansion. Raymond Chandler's famed private detective Philip Marlowe, this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with...
Help! Police! In Chicago, Sergeant Edward O'Malley asked fellow policemen, to help look for his stolen automobile, explained that it ought to be easy to spot: it still carried expired 1946 license plates...
When May Day dawned last week, the common man-by the millions-was on the march again, but not so starry-eyed. Labor had stolen its holiday from the Virgin and primitive goddesses of fertility to celebrate the dream of the eight-hour day. Now in turn Communism had stolen the holiday from the working man, and it had gone sour...