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...sallies he babbles the story of his life to a sympathetic bartender; on another he gets caught trying to steal a woman's purse in a nightclub. He makes an almost interminable march up Third Avenue, trying to hock his typewriter on a day when all the pawnshops are closed. He tumbles down a flight of stairs and wakes up in the city's alcoholic ward. The proper amount of ironic humor is observed in all that happens to the boozing hero, but the humor only relieves and does not lessen the cumulative horror of his predicament...
Even when they learned that there was plenty of food at the monastery, the children stole it from the table; they explained that they couldn't help it. Some still steal. Others who have broken themselves of the habit leave the dining room proudly with their open hands held ostentatiously out from their sides...
...Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...
Only a bit of wild base running in the second inning kept the Crimson from raising the score even higher. After Carlton had walked, he was sacrificed to second. Attempting to steal third, he was safe when the third sacker dropped the ball. Forte then walked, With men on first and third, the Varsity then pulled a double steal, with Forte breaking for second, and Carlton breaking for the plate. But when Carlton strolled merrily back to third Forte was easily nailed going into second, ending the rally...
When the old Emperor died in 1862, so the story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...