Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Catholic "cannons" (pickpockets) will rarely steal from a Catholic priest, but "Jewish cannons will beat a Jewish rabbi whenever possible...
...producers have put a great many ingredients in their cinematic soup and include in their cast along with Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick, and Richard Arlen, Andre Kostelanetz, Connie Boswell, the Yacht Club Boys, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, and two "rhythm swimmers" who pretty nearly steal the show with their performance in a sequence of "Whispers in the Dark...
...Soldiers Field and the Business School Field. They present a perennial problem to managers and caretakers, who, lacking the time to give moral instruction, must be continually routing the children by chasing them off the forbidden fields with oaths and other epithets. If not chased away, the urchins would steal the athletic equipment. The more they steal, the more they are chased, the more they are chased, the more they steal. Thus the situation presents a sort of vicious circle, from which nobody ever emerges, as a high birthrate in Allston equals the rate of supply of Harvard managers...
...more money for less work. Next week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead...
...Louis, police arrested for robbery 267-lb. Joseph Spitale, who explained he had to steal to buy new shoes. Said he: ''My feet were killing...