Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring there were strong rumors that $62,000 had been stolen from the National Baptists' Sunday School Publishing Board at Nashville, Tenn. President Williams sent Edward Donahue Pierson to audit the books. As Pierson was returning from Nashville to Chicago, someone shot him to death near Scottsburg, Ind., stole his audit report. Arrested for complicity in the murder but free on bail is Dr. B. J. F. Westabrook of Indianapolis, President Williams' bosom friend. Arrested for the murder and still in jail is George Washington, Indianapolis detective.* Sought for extradition from Tennessee as accomplices are Dr. Arthur Melvin...
...Seattle, Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Burns delayed their honeymoon while police searched for the thief who stole the bridegroom's wooden...
Into Baltimore's Wyman Park, on a dark night, up to the statue of Edgar Allan Poe stole Edmond Fontaine, Poe reverer. With flashlight he scanned the stone-wrought verse of "The Raven": "Dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." The "s" in "mortals" offended Mr. Fontaine. He hated its sibilance, knew that there was no "s" in Poe's original version. So Mr. Fontaine determinedly edited out the "s" with a chisel. A policeman arrested him for defacing the public monument...
...Manhattan, Margaret Costello, 24. thief, stole two diamond rings from a jewelry store. When arrested (for her 15th time), she explained: "All you men are fools...
...soldiers came marching home. Sly subterfuges were resorted to by the excited ladies on the Acropolis. Myrrhina remembered that she really should go home to lay a new spread on the bed, to which Miss Bainter scornfully replied: "You want to lay something else on the bed!" Kalonika stole the helmet from Athena's head, concealing it beneath her gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted...