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Word: stoolpigeon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drag Net. A city gang leader is on trial for murder. A stoolpigeon takes the stand to testify against him. In a hotel room opposite the courtroom, a man is toying with a golf club; good-naturedly, he steps to the window, picks up a rifle, shoots the stoolpigeon. That is the beginning of a lusty underworld melodrama written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime reporter for the New York World, produced by Paramount, acted by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...General, sought to dominate the Bureau? and its employees and to destroy my policies. He carried falsehoods to the President and sought to locate hospitals in a way that would be advantageous to his own interests. A homeopath himself, he sought to have homeopaths replace allopaths. He established a stoolpigeon system within the Bureau and in other departments of the government as well. He was a vain, strutting little creature and fancied that he had a great attraction for women. He held himself out to be the personal representative of the President and he spoke with a great show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Revelations | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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