Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of life. It was a low opinion, but subsequent events did nothing to change it. He became successively a bellhop, an elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller. He recognizes her for the Monte Carlo countess, but tries to prevent her from...
...averaging $750 a week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail in court, lost his temper when Weinberg told of conferring with him, cried: "You know you lie!" Thereafter...
...Cincinnati, a fleeing thug boarded the automobile of 45-year-old Chinese Fred Wong, told him to step on it. Wong would not go against a red light, though the burglar beat him with the butt of his gun. Police captured the wrongdoer, congratulated Wong. Wong said sheepishly: "I was afraid of being arrested for crashing a light...
McCaleb sees possibilities for his new burglar alarm as a fool-roof device to protect safes and vaults but he has not yet experimented fully on the subject...
...nervous system, then the blood vessels, muscles and nutrition of the skin itself. The reaction is a kind of bad habit, according to Dr. Bernstein, and hard to break. One of his patients, whom he cites as example, broke out in hives every time she recalled the time a burglar robbed her bedroom. Bleeding of the hands, feet, chest and forehead of religious ecstatics, corresponding to the Crucifixion wounds, are the result of hysteria, writes Dr. Bernstein, and "represent an identification with Christ on the part of the patient." Another of Dr. Bernstein's cases was a remorseful young...