Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary batting and base-running of $4,500-per-year Centrefielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of St. Louis who made three hits in the first game; made two hits, stole two bases and scored two runs in the second (TIME, Oct. 12) ; made two hits in the third; made the only two hits for St. Louis in the fourth; knocked in four runs with three hits, one of them a homerun in the fifth; was passed in the pinches in the sixth but managed to steal a base in the seventh. He tied the World Series record for total number...
Somewhat stealthily, as the vote neared, several Deputies stole out. Not one of these craven abstainers was bald. Bald deputies, Madrid noticed, voted almost without exception for votes-for-women. Very young Deputies, dandies with sleek black sideburns, vainly voted in the negative...
...through his hands every day, presented it to the broker, saved his account. For twelve years he tried to repay that $500, doubling his stake, multiplying it 20, 30, 100 times. He opened accounts with other brokers to change his luck. His thefts were never discovered because when he stole a bond he also stole the bank's records showing receipt of that bond. If he had to produce a missing certificate at the bank he substituted another for it at the broker...
Some romance usually invests anyone who violates the social code in a grand manner, but no romance relieves the drab career of Walter Wolf, embezzler extraordinary. He stole upward of $2,000,000, perhaps as much as $4,000,000, and never benefited materially from a cent of it, nor did anyone else except the brokers. Wolf and his wife and daughter lived and dressed simply, their car was small, his recreation was gardening about his home, he attended the local Lutheran church. His superiors considered him the faithful plodding kind who might...
...Joliet, 111., Murderer Arthur Miller stole the warden's son's clothing, dieted from 180 to 130 pounds, fit himself into the grey linen suit, blue shirt, sport belt, black & white sport shoes, clapped the golf hat on his head, seized a golf stick, sauntered to freedom. After a holiday in Davenport, Iowa, clever Convict Miller borrowed an automobile, started for Chicago. At Dixon, 111., he came upon something he had never seen before or during his twelve years in prison?a red traffic light. He gave it one contemptuous kok and drove merrily on. That night in the Dixon...