Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger classes, '42 promises to steal the show at the parade with its green cardboard top hat and green necktie combination. Carrying balloons and lollypops, the squad, whose hats will have red bands, expects to wear white and khaki short pants. Yesterday's opener of the Sixth Reunion was spent at the Essex County Club in Manchester, with sports in the afternoon and dinner at 7 o'clock. Class members will attend Memorial Church at 11 o'clock today and a buffet luncheon including wives has been slated for 1 o'clock...
They have, unaccountably, been in Christendom's midst for a long time. On the road to Calvary (so a gypsy account goes), an old gypsy woman took pity on the Savior and tried to prevent His crucifixion by stealing the nails that were to be used. When caught by a Roman soldier, the woman begged for mercy: "I haven't stolen anything for seven years." One of the Disciples was moved to say: "You are blessed now. Henceforth, the Savior allows you to steal once every seven years." Since then, the gypsies have roamed the world, cheerfully stealing...
...never read plays," George Bernard Shaw told Broadway Producer Jean Dalrymple. "I think it is a very bad idea for a playwright to read plays. If the play is good he is bound to be influenced by it and even to steal something from...
Harmful? If a "Dr. Binsey" made a scientific survey to prove that 99 out of 100 boys steal, said Father Harold Gardiner, S.J., an editor of America, parents would not demand a change in the larceny laws. Demanding a change in laws regulating sex on the basis of Kinsey's findings is just as senseless, he said; moral laws are unchangeable. The book may do harm Father Gardiner thought, because "indiscriminate knowledge improperly acquired and applied is an incentive to a lack of virtue. . . ." It would be far better, said he, if the Kinsey report were in the hand...
...harder he works the fishier the old case gets. He comes to believe in the prisoner's innocence. Before he knows it, he has much of Chicago's population with him and the whole of Chicago's police force against him. He has to steal evidence from the hostile cops, track down a reluctant witness through some wonderfully sinister slums, and finally win his argument in a well-contrived photofinish...