Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightening her fiance's pocketbook by $100,000, Duke finally makes Carol see that Hartley Madison is not the man for her to marry. By this time audiences have caught the upswing and excitement of the greatest U. S. betting sport and Lionel Barrymore has had time to steal the picture in the role of Carol's shrewd, hardheaded, horsewise grandfather...
Suitable acting is the term. Also unlike the case in many medical films, the players attempt to play their roles and not steal the show from each other...
When Buster McTernen scorched a single through the pitcher's box, the stage was set for a double steal with McTernen on first and Bilodeau safe at third. The speedy Crimson center fielder started for second. Bill Ryan, the Holy Cross catcher, spotted the play and in attempting to keep Bilodeau at third tossed wild to the hot-corner, allowing the Varsity captain to score. A moment later McTernen brought in the tying tally, as the left fielder's throw home went far from the plate...
...Italian draws water from the fountain for the young ones who were not sold, casting out the old to urchins playing in the street, and then puts to the shutters of his trade, might not then the more bold of the lot, feeling the strength of a kindred spirit, steal by the fragrance of their souls into that same room where lives the memory of him who loved them so well...
...Schaffendes Volk (Creative People) Exposition, timed to steal the thunder of the Paris Exposition and show up French "incompetence," will be opened this week (May 8) by Air Minister Colonel-General Hermann Wilhelm Goring. The Fair will publicize the aims and accomplishments of Germany's Four-Year Plan, especially such synthetic products as artificial rubber, textiles, gasoline. Also emphasized will be Germany's progress in city-planning, home-construction and horticulture. In the garden show alone will be more than a million varieties of plants and flowers...