Word: stole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devotees of pro football are always sure of a good show. Last week's clash between two beautifully coordinated machines was not only a sellout but a hit. For three periods the savage-tackling, pass-intercepting Giants stole the Redskins' tomahawk, crippled their attack and also their attackers, notably ferocious Andy Farkas. Not content with defending their goal line, the Giants brandished their own favorite weapon: in each of the first three periods they scored a field goal, two by Ward Cuff, one by Ken Strong...
...producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
Winnie Ruth Judd stuffed cans of soup, spaghetti, bread and a jar of jelly in a pillow case, stole two pairs of shoes, left a maundering letter to Governor Robert T. Jones, and slipped out. For 15 minutes she appeared at the nearby bedside of her invalid, 80-year-old father, then vanished in the night. Police watched her invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix...
...Another group that felt the pressure of the Government finger last week was the German-American Bund, whose leader, Fritz Kuhn, faces trial on charges he stole $14,000 of the Bund's money. Kuhn took a leaf from the Hitler notebook, announced his successor to his cheering colleagues: long-jawed G. Wilhelm Kunze, now Vice Leader...
...milk, drive tractors, onto the land. All this was done without costing the Government sixpence (except rent, stationery and the salaries of 50 clerical workers and two men to make tea at London headquarters). "We begged, we borrowed," says Lady Reading, "and I am ashamed to say, sometimes we stole...