Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gradually began to tell with Vasko. Said he: "If the court says I must take out the child's eye, then all right. But my wife, she still is not willing." But one morning early, a milkman saw the Vaskos, with their three children, bundles and one suitcase, steal from their house, climb into a dilapidated automobile, flee town...
...Wilson taking his place. With the bases filled, Follansbee muffed the first pitched ball letting Nevin come home, while Gleason went to third and McCaffrey moved up to second. The next batter, Hines, reached first, but Gleason was caught between third and home. A double steal enabled McCaffrey to score the Crimson's fifth tally. On the shortstop's error Sargent was safe at first, and Hines scored from second when Neel threw wild to the first baseman. Loughlin, coming to bat for the second time, fanned to end the inning, with the score six to nothing...
...with sophisticated gestures, a stampeding elephant who wrecks the lion house. But the people are exciting too. There is a sentimental young attendant (Gene Raymond) who amuses himself when lonely by holding long talks with the chimpanzees and who burns as many fur neckpieces as he can steal from visitors. There is a girl (Loretta Young) who, facing a five-year occupational school course in hide-curing, runs away one day when her class is making its weekly visit to the animals. At nightfall the girl and the attendant, fleeing arrest for his fur filching, and a small boy (Wally...
...dying tinkles. Things Authoress Luhan remembers : that a servant-girl first (unconsciously) aroused her sexually; that the boys & girls of her set kept notebooks, with preferred ratings of the opposite sex; that Nina Wilcox (Putnam Ogle) was her playmate, though Mrs. Ogle disapproved of her; that they used to steal number-plates from front doors; that in the summers she stayed with her grandparents at Lenox or Newport. At Newport she thinks she used to swim at a place called Bailey's Beach-"I haven't been there since I was eight or ten years...
...England village to the beginning of their senescence. John (Leslie Howard) appears first on a high-wheel bicycle, persuades Mary to go out West with him instead of marrying the British nobleman her family has chosen. In California they live in a cabin, have a child, raise cattle. Rustlers steal the cattle. John organizes a posse, hangs three rustlers. The rustlers burn the cabin, cause the baby to die of shock. John & Mary build a new cabin, have four more children. In course of time. John is nominated for Governor. When he gives a grand reception...