Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seldom has the Parisian Press been so excited about a crime as it was last summer when a hard-hearted criminal stole all the toy boats from the Luxembourg basin...
...York, N. Y., Jan 19--A book dealer, owning a shop on Fourth Avenue, and recently arrested in a police drive against a ring which stole rare books, estimated at a value of $40,000, from the Harvard College Library, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not more than three years...
...indeed. With some 100 followers the Kennedy brothers, famed fighters with pistol & knife, set out from their ranch one night and slipped into La Paz. In the police station they found 22 sleeping policemen. Eighteen surrendered without a struggle. The chief and three others they shot. They then stole $40 from the police safe, took the electric light plant and telegraph office, began parading the streets calling for recruits. Few joined, but for 18 hours the Kennedys held La Paz. The uprising never crossed the Parana River, which separates Entre Rios Province from the rest of Argentina. In Concordia...
...Wallington, N. J., a thief stole $110 from the cash register of Stanley Ploegers saloon. A detective arrested a policeman, took Saloonkeeper Ploeger to the courthouse to identify him. The policeman stood in line with several volunteers, including Judge Dominick Marconi of the traffic court. Saloonkeeper Ploeger passed by the suspected policeman, clapped a hand on Judge Marconi's shoulder. "This is the man," said he. Embarrassed police released the magistrate, held Saloonkeeper Ploeger for possession of liquor...
...boys) to the ripe old age which will land them in the University. At outs with each other, either was a guileful foe; together they considered themselves invincible. Typical escapade: When Shadow nearly won the reading competition by a dramatic recital of Poe's "The Telltale Heart" Sleepy stole the show by surreptitious drumbeating, by launching a large heart-shaped balloon at the climax. But Author Wertenbaker does not always load the dice in favor of his heroes: the victory as often as not is with Mr. Peyton, only slightly-idealized figure of a good headmaster. Before They Were...