Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been scrutinizing, Senator Nye declared: "I don't see how you can assume anything else." The Committee was asked to make two other inquiries: Massachusetts. Conrad W. Crooker, counsel of the Liberal Civic League, charged that onetime Senator William Morgan Butler & friends had already spent $500.000 to "steal" the Republican senatorial nomination. Likewise Mr. Butler, good friend of Calvin Coolidge, was accused of securing endorsements of Labor by putting labor leaders on his political payroll...
Will James has had his zeniths and his nadirs. When still a youngster he helped steal cattle on the quiet and once served a penitentiary sentence therefor. A shooting scrape once put him into a log prison of the Northwest Mounted Police. Once he was in the movies. That, says he, was a tough job. Many were the falls he took, some by order, some not; many the uncomfortable costumes (the worst a suit of armor) in which he fell. During the War he never got overseas, but he had a lot of fun on a horse, after his superior...
...Manhattan, she reported to her clothed, monogamous, scientific fellow Caucasians on the naked superstitious, polygamous and polyandrous New Irishmen. Shocking to vegetarians were her tales of petty island wars of which she said : "The causes of these wars generally were women and pigs. If a neighboring tribe would steal . . . there would be a war. The older natives refer to them as 'The good old days.' Only fallen enemies would be eaten as delicacy prevented consumption of friends...
...Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill ("steal," its enemies called it) had become law. Some ships, having lost the race, turned out of U. S. ports, took cargoes elsewhere. Conversely, piles of chicle (for gum-chewers), piles of spice and other things nice on which the new law reduced or revoked duties, after long waiting came officially into the U. S. from customs warehouses...
Aleek-chea-ahoosh's training as a warrior began when he was a few years old, for the Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter...