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...wallet, containing cards of identification, was found in his room but the money had been removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HAVEN HOTEL CLUE CHECKED IN GOULD HUNT | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

...Card of Merit and a leather wallet indicating that Struck bad received an "All America" rating for his work in the Princeton game two weeks ago, were presented to him last night on behalf of the Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRUCK NAMED BY ALL-AMERICA GRID BOARD | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

...weekly mob at the goal posts is considered as particularly choice territory by most experienced pick pocket artists. All people in the mob expect to be jostled and in the process of pushing it is extremly simple for an accomplished law breaker to extract a wallet, ciggrette case, or the like

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICKPOCKET IS NABBED AT GOAL POSTS MELEE | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...account of a tourist "adrift in the City of Light." The American (Harry Teplitz) elbowed his way bewilderedly through raucous vendors and squabbling shopkeepers, was momentarily absorbed by a gawking family from Kansas. A guttersnipe from the Left Bank (Miss Montgomery) stole his heart. Her Apache boyfriend stole his wallet. Ingenious winds and strings described the American's moods, half jaunty, half homesick. The orchestra revived him with a Charleston, got riotous when he decided to make a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dancing Philadelphians | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...whole with remarkable common sense. Knowing that it was simply a matter of time before the Arabella put back to pick him up, he passed the time by himself as well as he could. First he sacrificed his expensive suit and his shoes, but tried to save his wallet. When common sense overcame his modesty he let his striped underclothes go. Meanwhile, on the Arabella, everything was going just as quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alone at Sea | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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