Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before his womanizing tendencies got him into trouble. The French officers stationed at the fort complained that he stole their women. When his superior died and Yakouba was next in line for a bishopric his unpriestly ways made the appointment impossible. He was recalled to Algiers...
...mystery story, about the convict Magwitch and his life-long feud with the blackguard who stole his wife, is blurred by the fact that Magwitch never seems quite sure whether he is villain or hero. In addition to this, the characters have names like Pocket, Jaggers, Gargery and Pumblechook. In spite of all these eccentricities. Great Expectations is superb cinema entertainment. It should go a long way toward enlarging even further the prestige of Charles Dickens who has lately become the most fashionable author in Hollywood...
...less in jeopardy than old Samuel last week was young Samuel Jr. His arm still black-banded for the death of his wife last February, he hovered solicitously over his father, grinned at the Press, was quieter in court. Occasionally he stole a glance at the second row of the spectators' benches. There, straight and prim as a Quaker, sat his pretty mother. Last July she had followed her husband back from their European exile, travelling tourist class on the Majestic, announcing that she had come to stand by him. In Chicago she had abashed vociferous newshawks by gravely quoting...
...Tappan, N. Y., when John Ellich, 71, and Marie Kiefer, 61, passed forlornly through the door of the German Masonic Home, each felt that the rest of life held but little. But to John Ellich and Marie Kiefer came love, not death. All during one year they stole off together, held hands, whispered their emotions. But at the old folks home was a strict regulation against inmates marrying. One day, on leave, John Ellich and Marie Kiefer eloped to Manhattan. For two years after that officials of the home watched the strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called...
...Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole the show...