Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often rumored, "with my tongue in my cheek, in bed, probably wearing a silk dressing-gown and shaking with cynical laughter." Like Coward's plays, Present Indicative strikes many a theatrically effective note of frankness. When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches...
...dual personality of half-witted airport mascot and head of an international spy ring, Lorre busies himself with making Charlie Chan mutterances, intriguing to steal the United States' latest designs. As crack pilot of the commercial line, Brian Donlevy intrigues, to steal the same plans; Ralph Morgan, head of the firm, is having his wife and the plans stolen for him. Climax occurs after villainy discloses itself when they are all on board the airplane, with the plans, making a flight to Berlin...
...Ritz brothers offer plenty of entertainment in the comedy line in their characteristic manner. Newcomers to the screen, this comedy trio, whose style closely resembles that of the Marx brothers, steal the show from such old timers as Ned Sparks, the dead-pan comedian of a few years back and Adolf Menjou, who is paired with Arline Judge for some clever repartee...
...hope of upsetting the dope and winning this Quad meet will be their strength in the field events coupled with Harvard's strength in the running. In other words, the Elis feel that if the Crimson can cripple the Big Red's running sufficiently, they will slip in and steal the show...
...interest in the Lindbergh case was heard when it was revealed that he had filed suit against Mrs. Mary Macfadden, divorced wife of Publisher Macfadden (and mother of his five daughters), for allegedly accusing him not merely of making editorial capital of the case, but of actually conspiring to steal the Lindbergh child. Asking $150,000 for libel, Mr. Oursler announced that this fantastic charge was contained in a long rigmarole which Mrs. Macfadden allegedly wrote and dispatched last June to New Jersey's harried Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. The editor's lawyers complained that...