Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your issue of Aug. 27 connects me with "Stevens-Duryea." My thanks for your generosity but I have no desire to steal my brother's thunder. I had no direct part in S-D cars but consider myself their grandfather. I took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were...
...snorted. Dr. Tugwell had never seen a pig near Boston. Farm census takers had never reported a small fraction of that number. Middlesex was trying to get away with an atrocious steal. Just how atrocious was shown by the fact that if Middlesex raised 100,000 pigs it had a bigger pig population per square mile than any other county in the U. S. Before AAA paid Middlesex farmers a dollar it would send investigators to bring Middlesex back to the paths of honesty...
They towed the car to Arcadia whence two ambulances carried the bodies to Dallas. Among Bonnie Parker's effects was a poem she had written, her own threnody: Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they...
...depicts the hell through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant lies simply to attract interest and who collapse when someone finds them out. The scenes are mostly familiar to local readers--the Harvard club, Majestic Theatre, and hotels easily identified...
...real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens, to steal bases, sacrifice. ¶Died. Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned against...