Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second (TIME, Oct. 12) ; made two hits in the third; made the only two hits for St. Louis in the fourth; knocked in four runs with three hits, one of them a homerun in the fifth; was passed in the pinches in the sixth but managed to steal a base in the seventh. He tied the World Series record for total number of hits (12). He also made 10 putouts, no errors in the series...
...Glasgow was not calmed that easily. Looting and rioting continued intermittently for three days. Scotch reporters gloomily wired that a simple impulse to snatch and steal, rather than any motive of politics or protest seemed to inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy...
Meanwhile, Laborer Hanna had on his mind the matter of his daughter Helen, 15. Because she was alleged to have told her little sister to steal a purse last July, she had become award of the court. Her case came up early last month. Like her mother, she was examined by Carolyn Friendly. After that, Laborer Hanna became angry, terrified, excited. And Portland (through the sedate Portland Oregonian} learned of the Hanna Case for the first time. For Teacher Friendly had written of Helen Hanna: "Recommendation: Should be sterilized. She is not at all placeable and if left...
...this year's Open Polo Championship was a shade more than friendly. The Santa Paula Team, which won the Pacific Coast Open in 1930, arrived first, played at Chicago and Detroit this summer. The Anglo-Argentine Hurlingham team got to Westbury, N. Y. just in time to steal some of Santa Paula's thunder. If they played brilliantly in the Open, their accomplishments might have affected the enthusiasm with which U. S. buyers would bid for the spare-limbed, light-footed, cattle-trained ponies Santa Paula had brought with them to sell. Talk about an International series...
...canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite...