Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the boys don't climb over and steal the fruit...
...generous and well selected program. The full, throaty tones of the stellar member of the trio, Connie Boswell, are satisfying enough to justify the whole bill, in our opinion, Stan Kavanaugh, a dead-pan juggler, who is indeed a master of his craft, makes a bold bid to steal the whole show. The rest of the bill, consisting of tumblers and a six-couple dancing act, round out a fare that is varied and fast-moving enough to entertain throughout...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace from whom Mr. Ickes would like to steal the Forestry Service as a conservation measure...
...Abyssinia, the last independent native monarchy in Africa. Last week Negroes were pained and shocked by the callous indifference of most whites to Abyssinia's present life-&-death crisis. Mourned Baltimore's Afro-American, "Even enlightened Americans like Walter Lippmann approve the attempt of Italy to steal Abyssinia's lands, on the theory that it is better to pacify Mussolini in Africa than to have him stirring up trouble in Europe...
French officialdom rules Tahiti with blue laws that are only half-heartedly enforced. The natives are required not to drink spirits, steal openly, sing after 9 p. m., kill their unwanted babies. The one prohibition that has really hurt the tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...