Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director of the Budget, gave an audience of Federal bureaucrats a literal demonstration of how to economize on brooms. On March 4, 1925 when he was being sworn in as Vice President the violence of Mr. Dawes's castigation of the Senate and its time-wasting rules completely stole the inaugural show from Calvin Coolidge. Last week Mr. Dawes, now president of Reconstruction Finance Corp., was back before a Congressional Committee making lively front page news with his desk-pounding, his belligerent gestures, his oaths-and his homely appeal to common sense. Mr. Dawes had been summoned before...
...worry, Father John!" cried John Power, but Premier Squires did worry. He took off his gold ring and pressed it upon John Power for keeps. Out the back door they stole, but Sir Richard was recognized and not even John Power could keep the mobsmen back. They knocked their Premier down. Father Pippy flung himself upon Sir Richard to protect him. John Power battled, snorted and swore dreadful sea oaths. The tide at last was turned by the two Protestant clerics. Rev. C. Johnson and Rev. W. Godfrey. Hopping up & down and shouting their loudest, they begged...
...street. Solemn, impassioned promises by highly respected citizens that Premier Sir Richard Squires would positively resign or call a Newfoundland election within 48 hours finally got the smashers out of the building. But they rushed directly to two of St. John's State liquor stores, burst them open, stole every bottle and spent a night of bemused swizzling during which nobody was injured...
Officials of the Lampoon, humorous college magazine, when reached last night, expressed an ardent desire to communicate with those who stole Arthur the Seagull and the sacred alligator. "We wish that someone would give us the bird, and will ask no questions" sums up the attitude of the funsters. In addition a ransom of $50 will be paid for the return of the goods, according to one of the editors of the publication. Theories have been advanced by those who urge a thorough search of the east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn...
...adventures in childish asceticism, giving away all his toys, pricking his cheeks with oleander leaves, ended when his father made him give some strips of his skin to graft on a peasant's arm. From the family attic he stole a mummified arm, scared a schoolboy into fits with it. Childhood came to an end when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets...