Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...THEFT! WPA REEKS...
...Door of Life. Although the. squire bears a healthy son without too much trouble, there is such confusion downstairs -the cook leaves because she cannot stand childbirth, another turns out to be immoral, the butler hates women, his substitute is a drunk and a maid is discharged for theft-that readers are likely to forget that Author Bagnold is picturing the fortitude of English mothers, not the corruption of English domestics...
...Theft In Sacramento, Calif., A. Nelson reported to police that during the night someone had stolen his merry-go-round...
LILIES FOR MADAME-Hugh Austin- Crime Club ($2). A snarl of theft and blackmail involves an obscure girl hired to impersonate a New York nightclub singer on a Caribbean cruise. A vigorous tale, with suspense, humor, excellent dialogue...
When great, prolific Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in 1809, he was buried in a simple grave in one of Vienna's suburban cemeteries. Two days after the burial, enthusiastic medical students bribed the gravedigger, opened the grave and made off with Composer Haydn's head. The theft was discovered eleven years later when Haydn's remains were disinterred and buried more imposingly in the neighboring town of Eisenstadt. Pressed by the police, the skull-collectors delivered up a skull which was promptly attached to the rest of Haydn's skeleton and reburied. But the skull...