Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trotnyck, the janitor, compares the hall to Madison Square Garden: a different event each night. "But nothing really happens any more," he complains, "I always find couples petting in the dark corners on square dance nights, and several years ago some drunken Yalies crawled up the tower to steal the bell clapper, but it's nothing like the old days. The place is a little gloomy...
Police said that the students' technique was to steal identification, such as burzar's cards, and get the checks changed on small purchases. A cashier spotted them at the Stop and Shop market...
Perhaps the best-known of these traditions is the annual bell-clapper escapade. Every fall as early as possible the freshman class is allowed to steal the clapper of the hell in Nassau Hall's tower in order to prevent it from tolling the hours of classes. If there is no bell, then there are no classes...
...Covner baby was sleeping so hard, as Roberta put it, "that you couldn't wake him up with a meat cleaver," and the girls hurried upstairs, forthwith, to steal some of Mrs. Covner's dresses for the trip. They made a heady discovery-the doctor, for reasons best known to himself, had hidden $18,000 in small bills in a box in the bedroom closet. Gasping with conspiratorial joy, the girls bundled clothes and money into a suitcase, swiped some lipstick, hustled out of the house and took a bus to the big city...
...known as the Intro-Fraternity Council, tribe leaders recently vetoed a scheme to steal into Dillon and paint all the footballs green. But the group has tentatively decided to sail up the Charles in canoes before the game tomorrow...