Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught cribbing, a University of Utah class in Chinese political thought was thus reproved by its professor, Utah's Senator-elect Elbert Duncan Thomas: "If you are going to cheat or steal, get something worth while. Be clever and make the other fellow pay. Don't get caught. I have been fooling people all my life. The first people I fooled were my parents. When I grew up I fooled my wife when I married her. Now I have played a joke on 117,000 Utah voters. However, only about 2.000 of these knew whom they were voting...
...faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet is one of the stages...
...Hollywood musical comedy-in a theatre with Colman, laughing at Charlie Chaplin. The Devil Is Driving (Paramount) is another chapter in Paramount's current saga of crime & punishment, dealing with misbehavior in the garage and the nasty methods of automobile thieves. These thieves are not adept. When they steal a "classy closed job" they drive it so fast that even traffic policemen notice them; in trying to reach their base of operations, the Metropolitan Garage, they run down a small child (Dickie Moore) in a toy roadster. His father is the garage manager (James Gleason), his uncle...
...hours. His first speech fortnight ago at Des Moines had been temperately warm in its condemnation of his opponents and their political tactics. Speech No. 2 by Lake Erie's shore boiled and bubbled with hot personal indignation. President Hoover believes that Governor Roosevelt & henchmen are trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined him flushed and fighting mad. The President's-audience within the hall saw a pale, distraught man, deeply aroused by political forces beyond his control...
Richard Barthelmess, son of a tenant farmer who dies of the scrabble for existence, educates himself with the rich landlord's help, becomes the landlord's man. The poor steal the rich man's cotton, kill his men, burn down his store. The rich man juggles the accounts to keep the poor in debt to him, takes part in lynching a poor man. Each side looks to Barthelmess to betray the other. He snubs a tenant girl's (Dorothy Jordan's) clean love as he succumbs to the unholy temptations of the landlord's daughter (Bette Davis). When the burning...