Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Levy was bred in the gutters of a Paris suburb, son of a Jew huckster who choked his buxom wife to death one night when Julius found her in bed with the landlord's son. Julius and his father straggled off to Algiers. There, orphaned, Julius learned to steal, snuggle in the arms of a Negro laundress, consider the English a "race of fools." Presently, accompanied by a 14-year-old prostitute disguised as a boy, Julius was en route to London. In London he followed the success story formula. He worked as a baker's boy, bought...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...
...Glacier's atmosphere that guest houses are called chalets. There are tepees of placid Blackfeet by mirrored lakes, lots of snow on the peaks, and the Government botanist keeps the hotels full of Indian paintbrush, tufted bear grass, harebell, Nancy-over-the-ground. He wants you to steal them. It will keep you from rooting up wildflowers in the park, which the Government assiduously cultivates. The Great Northern has a corner on Glacier rail travel just as the Northern Pacific considers Yellowstone...
...Government should follow their vague but benevolent White Paper program destined to give India a little more freedom some years hence, or scrap the White Paper here and now. As the scrappiest of pro-scrappers appeared peppery, red-haired Winston Churchill who for years has been trying to steal the Party leadership from "flaccid" Mr. Baldwin and "cold" Mr. Chamberlain...
...Most famous attempt to steal Britain's crown property occurred in 1671, when the notorious Col. Blood (probably at the instigation of Charles II) nearly succeeded in filching the crown jewels from the Tower of London...