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Word: stole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward McCune and Cecil Rich, undergraduates at College of Emporia (Kans.), had read so much about the fun to be had in New Orleans at Mardi Gras that they stole two cars and held up a filling station to get there in time for last week's frolic. For robbing a second filling station on the outskirts of New Orleans and kidnapping its attendant, Funsters McCune & Rich were clapped into jail. Even so they could congratulate themselves on having taken part in a two-day pre-Lenten spree which, for sheer hell-raising, was unsurpassed since the fabulous days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Hell before Lent | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

King Lobengula is played by a genuine Matabele warrior named Ndanisa Kumalo. A huge, jovial black, brought to England for the production, he proved to be a superb actor. In history, Rhodes stole King Lobengula's country; in Rhodes, King Lobengula steals the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...surplice and violet stole, Father Theophilus repeated the prayers of the Church and loosed all the forces of the Lord at the devils day after day for 23 days. Finally, the Iowa woman smiled and for the first time in twelve years said: "My Jesus, mercy! Praised be Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Exorcist & Energumen | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Standish and Gore Ball fought to a 4-4 deadlock in the first annual intra-House indoor baseball game among the Puritans. Tom Bilodeau, Varsity baseball man, starred for the Standishites, while Bill Welch stole the spotlight in the ranks of the Gorites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

...Fair Lawn, N. J., when someone stole the little white pig on which John Clauss conducts his experiments in pig medicine, Clauss advertised that the pig had just been inoculated with a poisonous serum, added. "I just want the people who took my white pig to know that my other pig is filled with poisonous serum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Recruits | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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