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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur stops the car and says. I am pretending there is something wrong with the motor, for if the soldiers see a good automobile they immediately will steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Orient Express | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Walsh was attempting to steal home in a practice game in the Briggs Cage, and seeing that his chances of making the plate weren't better than 50-50, tried to slide past Catcher George Blackwood. His foot caught as he made the slide and three bones were snapped. This is expected to keep him out for at least a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PITCHER WALSH BREAKS FOOT DURING PRACTICE | 3/21/1935 | See Source »

...this circumstance plunges Bookkeeper Jones starts when police arrest him, smilingly dismiss his apologetic explanations as the wily alibis of a desperate criminal. It continues when Jones, released with a safe-conduct to prevent his being arrested again, returns to his dingy room and finds Murderer Mannion waiting to steal the safe-conduct and use Jones as a decoy. It ends when Jones finally lives up to his brave exterior by helping to kill Mannion, collecting $25,000 reward, marrying the stenographer whom he has always bashfully adored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...house his $19,000,000 collection of art treasures (see p. 32). Throbbed Lawyer Hogan: "God Almighty did not create a man who could at the same time and with the same heart be giving such a great gift to humanity and, on the other hand, be scheming to steal from his Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Reputation v. Reputation | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters in Carnival is required to do little more than swallow cereal and retain his composure when Lee Tracy, blowing in his face, addresses him as "Poochy." He discharges these duties capably, seems less eager to steal scenes than most of his contemporaries, and is therefore star material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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