Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action expected of a good host. Last year, when the game was played in Providence, a large number of Harvard undergraduates enjoyed the hospitality of the fraternities at Brown following the game. They neither behaved as guests nor as gentlemen, several going so far as to steal eight large fraternity flags. At that time, no attack was made on Harvard by the Brown paper; these actions were passed over as high spirits. To get back to this year and the game, during the entire second half there was a great deal of rough play on the field. This is natural...
...traditional flannel suit is fighting a desperate last-ditch battle to retain its preeminence in the field. Gray flannel seems to be definitely losing favor and the manufacturers have introduced a new color--"char-brown"--which they hope may help them steal a march on the rest of the garment industry. If the color gimmick falls, merchants say, the flannel regime may well be coming...
...weekend's finale comes swirling leaves and crackling branches. It comes on padded feet which, cloud-like, steal across the sky. It doesn't end with a crash or black and white announcement. Without exactly knowing why or how it ends. Maybe the wine or music brings...
...Crawford watched closely. "You strike one blow with that sledge hammer on this property." he told Bishop Tomlinson, "and I'll have to arrest you." The bishop moved his lips in prayer, then swung, chipping away a bit of concrete from the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal"). Said Sheriff Crawford: "That does it." He took the bishop off to jail. After an hour, Bishop Tomlinson was released to await trial for destroying private property. Said he confidently: "The trial will not be for Homer Tomlinson, but for idolatry...
...plot of Escapade is a whips about a Pacifist whose three sons flee boarding school, steal a plane, and fly to Geneva with an adolescents' peace petition. The play proves above all that children must be seen if the audience is going to hear abut them all evening. Icarus, the eldest son, is constantly discussed but is never on the stage. By description, he seems so colorful that it is curious for playwright Roger MacDougall to waste time with the boy's parents...