Word: thief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire (enrollment: 3,500) and take over big Louisiana State (enrollment: 10,000) on one condition: that he have full authority to run L.S.U. "without political or other interference." For the university which had been one of Huey Long's pet projects ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.!"), it was a tall order. But it was just what the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors had in mind. For months during 1947, the 14 supervisors, most of them appointees of "reform" Governors Sam Houston Jones and James Houston Davis, had been looking for an out-of-state educator...
Inventory. In Pittsburgh, the thief who broke into a gasoline station left a note for Owner Henry C. Evert: "Sorrier I brock your dorr. I got flash light. I got 55?. Thnks...
Police detectives have so far failed to turn up the key or the thief who broke into Brown's apartment Monday morning and made off with the key, shirt studs, an electric clock, a sun lamp, and a portable radio...
...Biggest Thief in Town (by Dalton Trumbo; produced by Lee Sabinson) sets out to make a gay evening of a ghoulish subject. The scene is an undertaking parlor in a small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite...
Q.E.D. In Highland Park, Calif., when Mrs. C. H. Trompeter remarked to one of the bandits who had robbed her of $300 that he looked surprisingly like a professional man, he replied: "I am a professional man, madam ... a professional thief...