Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an hour and a half of Ben Bernie's orchestra in the movie, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees on the stage hardly shone in unrivalled brilliance. But Rudy did have a very excellent mimie with him, who stole the show, and must have exasperated his master by his innumerable encores and curtain calls. The luke-warm so-whatness of it all cheered the chippies in the third gallery; all grapefruit aside, the lay of last minstrel was more salivary than sexy...
Pitted against Scheu and Bliss, winners of the 1000-yard run in the Tri Meet, Bob Woodward Thursday stole the spotlight in the University Handicap Meet by breaking the tape for the 1500-meters in record time, 4:9.2. Other highlights of the meet included Hornbostel's victory over Bay Estes in the 3200-meter and Milt Green's two wins in the hurdle events...
...better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths behind, the crews settled down to the hardest rowing of the race. At Barnes Bridge, Oxford made its final challenge. The stroke went up, 32 to Cambridge's 30, and the Dark Blue boat gained a length. But Cambridge...
Like nearly everyone else, Lilo Linke was morally affected by the insanity of inflation. She stole books, sold them, began to slip towards the maelstrom of Berlin's delirious night life. What saved her was the Youth Movement. Into this earnestly idealistic confraternity Lilo Linke threw herself with desperate fervor, gave all her interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader...
...still belonged to Spain, General Jackson led his troops against them in the First Seminole War. Three years later, U. S. purchase of Florida sent a flood of white squatters over the Seminoles' lands. The Federal Government helped shunt the Indians south to swamps and sand dunes. Whites stole their cattle and Negroes, kept up a continuous outcry to have them driven out altogether. In 1832 the Government persuaded some of the Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty promising mass emigration to Arkansas within three years...