Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumultuous noise-making was the appearance of an ex-heavyweight world's champion garbed in the full regimentals of a Marine Corps Major serving conspicuously on that Governor's military staff. In retrospect most observers agreed that Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney with his dress saber and gold braid stole the inauguration from Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross with his fawn spats and his red ribbon of the Legion of Honor...
Silver 10-lira pieces bearing on the reverse the Virgin Mary, crowned, enthroned and haloed above the legend "Queen of Peace"; on the obverse, Pope Pius XI in mozetta, stole and biretta...
...penalty of the game at about half time in, the period but Harvard could not capitalize and score. It was not long though before Garrison broke through and drew first blood. While Dewar wan playing around with the puck preparatory to taking it down the ice the Harvard center stole up on him, took the dine away from him and skated down the ice, sending the puck past Ames before the Toronto goalie had realized what had happened. The period was 14 minutes and ten seconds old when Garrison scored...
...Saratsi Minister Johnson visited millet fields that had been swept clear of grain by rats. The Saratsi farmers, crafty little people, did not complain. They told Mr. Johnson that they hunted out the rats' holes, stole the grain the industrious rats had harvested...
...Last week aged Headmaster Roger W. Swetland and Peddie's trustees and alumni were mortified by the unfavorable publicity which three Peddie boys had brought upon their school. In the dead of night three students-August F. Ballbach, 16, Harold G. Newman, 18, Ralph W. Hamn, 16-stole out of the school grounds. For the past three weeks this trio had been enjoying nefarious nocturnal outings unbeknown to the authorities. Excited but confident, they made off down Hightstown's dim little main street. Belted, muscular State troopers suddenly appeared, surprised and arrested them. The charge: larceny, robbery...