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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff is the Gulf Stream of politics. It flows through both parties, and each is trying to catch the other in bathing and steal his clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...Jack was human and properly awed by appearances. He waited until the giant was asleep to steal the gold and the hen which spilled forth eggs before the audience's very eyes. He used more wit to get the harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the Childlike | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...poorhouse, he is a successful young physician. Climax: she goes to his house to have a last look at him. Entirely too proud to tell who she is, she chuckles when he discovers in her traces of disease, looks worried when he suspects her of wanting to steal from its frame a picture of herself as a young girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into the picture when no one was looking. The Unholy Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...which High scored. In the sixth, after Captain and Second Baseman Frankie Frisch had made a two-base hit, Pepper Martin smashed a homerun into the left field grandstand. In the eighth he singled, scoring Rightfielder Watkins. He was then, for the first time, put out trying to steal second. Philadelphia made a run in the seventh inning, St. Louis made another run in the ninth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: World Series, Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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