Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusing to pay for "protection," the schoolboys indignantly try to find evidence that will convict him. When the gangster shoots a schoolboy whom he finds skulking in his bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard...
...Havana's streets became full. With no soldiers to stop them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
...during William Tecumseh Sherman's famed March to the Sea, Union soldiers stole two pigs from the Georgia estate of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Last week Sherman's grandnephew, Lieutenant John B. Sherman, sent two Poland-China pigs to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis at the War Department in Washington. He enclosed a note...
...three robbers entered the Manhattan apartment of Hairnet Maker Harry C. Glemby, bound him, his wife, daughter and two servants with wires, escaped with Mrs. Glemby's jewelry, valued at $349,000. Early this year robbers broke into the home of Mrs. Isaac Keller, mother of Harry Glemby, stole $50,000 in jewelry. Last April, as clerks of the Glemby company entered an elevator with a $1,349 payroll, two men held them up, made the operator take the elevator up while they escaped with the money. Last week a single robber entered the Atlantic City hotel room...
...planist's finger on a descending glissando. It sunk back into reality on the Esplanade where the crowd was chattering and chewing. Infinitely far up over in the east, a little star burned and its light pierced the haze and noise like a burnished steel point. The Vagabond stole away softly and followed...