Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stealing the bell clapper from the tower of old Nassau Hall is so persistent a custom at Princeton that the university does a profitable business: keeps a barrel of spare clappers in reserve and fines students $30 a steal. One dark night two months ago Freshman John C. Seed, 19, of Oak Park, Ill., eluded the bored watchman, shinnied up a drain pipe. Part way up, he lost his hold, fell 35 feet to the ground. Freshman Seed went to a Chicago hospital, where his father is a physician, with two broken vertebrae...
...Bilodeau and Johnny Prior singled to start the inning for the old grads, putting men on first and third. Clay retired the next two men on flies and seemed to be out of trouble when a poor throw by Bob Regan allowed Bilodeau to score on a double steal. Dudley then singled Prior home and Freddy Keyes let another run in as he held Todd's single after a brilliant stop...
...socialite sense, the foulest deed Dick Whitney ever did was to steal $105,184 in securities from the safe-deposit box of the swanky New York Yacht Club, of which he was treasurer. Last week his old club, anxious to recoup, filed suit for all he had embezzled, plus interest, against a less exclusive, more expensive club, the New York Stock Exchange. Ground for the suit, had the Exchange exposed its onetime president sooner, it might have prevented the yacht club theft...
...have a second plan. I propose to the Kirkland House Committee that they supplant these red-clothed creatures of the flesh by a corps of cunuchs to steal silently up to the doors of the rooms, leave the tray, and then vanish when the scholars of Kirkland House weary from wrestling alone with knowledge and culture . . . and come out to munch on a little Veal Saute or Beef a la Dutch. William N. Parker...
...pledged you his vote for next election. An exasperated audience, after a pathetic prologue which might have been called "Waiting for Mickey," concluded you were even more foolish than they'd expected, and settled down to the real events of the evening. You didn't manage to "steal the show," or "walk off with the honors" at all. Another performance like this one, and Cambridge is likely to conclude it can do without the pompous, angry little man who acts rather like Donald Duck...