Word: stealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thou shalt not steal...
...Willard Mack. In this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon he beseeches them...
...Night of Love (Ronald Colman). If a duke carries off the bride of a gypsy chieftain, why should the gypsy chieftain not steal the duke's mate? In the 17th Century he should and he did. What with some frenzied mob scenes, some beauteous scenery, some warm gypsy love by Mr. Colman, a near-burning at the stake, a window-jumping by the heroine, The Night of Love is a seeable picture...
...just two kinds of people in this world. One kind believes in organized life, in rules, in property; the other kind doesn't. I know a man who decided at 35 that he couldn't see the sense of belonging to orderly society. . . . When he had to steal for food, he stole. He was an extreme case, of course, but interesting to a man like...
College men who have been taught that the greatest sacrifice one can commit in the sacred precincts of Widener is to light a match or steal a book must recognize in the probable innovation of the Business School Library a sign of the times. It will be the first time smoking has ever been permitted in any college library...