Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South European, African and Near Eastern ports that the line came to be called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean." His business deals were legendary: when a Danish line tried to steal his customers by offering below-cost freight rates on flour, Gehan dug up so many flour orders for his rival that the Dane had to raise his rates to avoid ruin. Gehan wangled so much tobacco trade that the line cornered some 80% of all the Turkish-type tobacco freight...
...also offers the fun of watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver, one of fiction's most ingratiating scoundrels. Disney apparently liked him well enough to let him steal the whole treasure (as well as the picture), instead of the single sack of coins that Stevenson let him get away with...
...time Harold Mitchell went to bed upstairs at 5 a.m., almost everybody knew that Actor Lodge would clearly steal the show next day. He did. The final count: for Lodge, 358; for Bradley...
Lonesome Gal is resigned to being misunderstood by the rest of her sex. "Some girls think I'm trying to steal their guys, but I'm not. I just say things a lot of girls don't have the nerve to say to their men." Has anyone considered her show suggestive? "I never say more than 'I'd like to kiss you on the end of the nose'-something impersonal like that," she explains indignantly. "I might tell a guy how nice it would be to spend a weekend in a small and charming...
Bonny Akillian was the big man in the inning with two hits, but Crosby, who was allowed two walks, was the only man who managed to score twice. Crosby's second tally came on a steal home, his third of the season...