Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haddock Abroad. It is not as funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface: Mr. Haddock (Leon Errol) wrestling with a brakeman in an empty car; Mrs. Haddock (Zazu Pitts) overcome with seasickness induced by autosuggestion...
...snatch up dogs when they are taken out for an airing. Dogs caught in one State are often sent to another State to be sold. Purchasers asking for an expensive dog in unscrupulous shops will almost always get what they want. The pet shop owner will have a scout steal one to order...
Being highly elated over the victory, and, being but a mere spectator, I could think of nothing better to do than to steal the Stanford waterbucket-which I did. SIEGFRIED F. LINDSTROM...
...danseuse, having lost confidence in herself, finds a man in her room who has come to steal her jewelry. He is a disgraced nobleman. They fall in love, her self-confidence returns, he returns her belongings, sets out to get money enough to accompany her to Vienna. But they never get to Vienna, for he is shot while attempting to pilfer money from the room of an industrialist...
...high moral fervor of the war period has been followed, very naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness. When there is a general moral depression it is likely to show itself in a multitude of different ways...