Word: thief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fingerprints may capture the thief that made off Wednesday night with $160 worth of Red Book funds and $40 private cash belonging to occupants of Thayer...
...barked, and 3) Ranch Hand Carl Thomas would have heard the noise and called him; the police patiently explained to Hetzler that 1) the car was in Yuma, Ariz., 2) the dog was still in it but sitting quietly, and 3) Ranch Hand Thomas had been arrested as the thief...
...rambunctious drawing-room farce about a woman who is so anxious to get to a ball that she cracks her husband over the head with a vase, has her lover arrested, and finally sweeps off with the chief of police. Beside The Old Maid and the Thief, the other half of the evening's bill, it seemed pretty thin...
...network member, speaking unofficially, opined that the theft could conceivably have been pulled by some one on the inside. WHRV officials rushed to deny this, pointing out that anyone familiar with the studio would have known that nothing valuable was kept in the room which the thief broke into...
...crowds and slums of the frightening city, Father Kumalo finds out what has happened to his people, whom the used-up land no longer supports and who swarm to the mines and compounds, homeless and without families. His sister has become a prostitute, his son a thief. There are few kafferboeties, or white men who work for the welfare of the blacks. One of them is killed by a housebreaker, and to his terrible sorrow the old man learns that his son Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions...