Word: thief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Hurson Cut Stone Co. of Washington, D. C., put a sign on the door of the safe: "To whom it may concern: there is no money in this safe, only some papers of no value to any one. Please do not break open." Last week a thief broke into Hurson's store, grinned at the sign, cracked the safe, found it as empty as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...rule sharply curtailing short sales. Thus spurred, the Exchange endorsed the Conway recommendations at once. Richard Whitney again mobilized his opposition, but early in March came the event which definitely delivered the battle into reform hands-Whitney, so long the White Knight of Wall Street, was a thief...
Algiers (Walter Wanger) sets its scene in the bizarre crookedness of Algiers' shuttered, cluttered, labyrinthine native quarter, the Casbah. It is the story of the defeat of a magnificent criminal ego. Whimsical, moody, brutal Pepe le Moko, a jewel thief from Paris, is safe as a fugitive just so long as he stays in the Casbah. Knowing this, patient Policeman Slimane baits him with the thesis that the Casbah itself is his prison, then calmly watches and waits while this disturbing seed takes root. The lure to break prison comes in the shape of an incredibly beautiful woman. When...
Swordsman Bourdet is best known in the U. S. for his Lesbian play, The Captive, produced in Manhattan in 1927 and subsequently banned by the police. Swordsman Bernstein is best known for his play The Thief, which ran on Broadway for nine months in 1907-08, has been twice revived. His Melo, produced in Manhattan in 1931, was last year made into the cinema Dreaming Lips, starring Elisabeth Bergner...
...underworld enjoins perseverance on its adherents, and Ziegier was again awakened at 3.30 o'clock yesterday morning by the same determined thief, busily engaged in rifling the bureau drawers. Ziegier, a traffic bored with this repetition, muttered, "So it's you again...