Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months 16 banks have been robbed in Nebraska. Desperate, the Nebraska Bankers' Association last week posted a $3,000 reward for each bank robber killed in the act. That very day three young men entered a bank at Nehama, stole...
...face wry with suppressed vituperatives Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of New Orleans last week sedulously searched for the scoundrel who stole the carbon copy of a letter he recently wrote to a friend, Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, professor of surgery at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Ochsner, 34, has since 1927 been professor of surgery at old (founded 1834) and ponderously named School of Medicine of the College of Medicine of the Tulane University of Louisiana. He succeeded famed Professor Rudolph Matas. Tulane wanted Dr. Ochsner "to bring the medical school to the highest possible...
...covered until the train got to Utica. There he boarded a locomotive and raced off down the track with another locomotive full of angry police in pursuit. Suddenly Perry reversed his engine, opened fire, pursued his pursuers until he ran out of steam. He escaped, held up a farmer, stole a horse, was captured by a posse, sentenced to gaol for "as long as he could see." In gaol, he tried to blind himself with needles, was called insane...
Died. Charles E. Bedford Jr., 30, son of Vice President Bedford of the Vacuum Oil Co.; by his own hand, in a dollar-a-night Brooklyn hotel. When only 19, Bedford came home from the War mentally sick. The same year he stole a car to escape from a physician, went to gaol in Indiana, later to a New York asylum from which he ran away. Ashamed to go home, although his family used every possible persuasion, he wandered, hid himself in crowds, spent the past five years in Brooklyn slums...
Critics had predicted a runaway for the Americans. This did not happen. Through the first half, and until the seventh chukker. the Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods...