Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their wives push their own prams, London exhibits no district more decorous and decorative than St. John's Wood. But in Queen Victoria's gilded reign a century ago, this first of the city's garden suburbs had another reputation. Then noble Britons liked to steal away from their confining Mayfair mansions and visit leafy little hideaways in St. John's Wood. There George IV and Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road; many less famous women lived in well-kept seclusion with nothing...
...Southtown and Southeast editions blanket 22% of metropolitan Chicago-including the Lake Calumet area, where Chicago is building a vast new industrial complex on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The ad-fat Economist (circ. 152,000), which has more, than 100 staffers, also has a battling tradition. Example: crying "land steal," it has vociferously fought grandiose plans for a convention palace on the lake front, as decreed long ago by the late Colonel Bertie McCormick and still pushed by the Tribune...
During the Band's half-time performance, a group of Dartmouth students charged onto the field in an attempt to steal the Band's giant drum...
...from her bedroom window." In a devoutly Catholic town ("If grandma would give me the money she spends on Masses, I'd be rich. I don't know if what I'm writing is a sin") Helena went through all the religious forms. Yet she could steal a brooch from her mother and convince herself that the idea "was given to me by Our Lady...
...McVey showed the potential that made him such a standout last season. The Black Knights simply could not steal the puck from him. The same was true with the more calculated playmaking of Higgenbottom, who added an important boost to the sextet's third line...