Word: stole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answers the G.A. hot line in Boston, recognizes much of his former self in the description. He confesses: "When I was gambling, my wife could have been home dying from cancer, and I could not have cared less." G.A. Member Myron R. of New York City actually stole money from his four-year-old to go to the track. One possessed gambler even admits to digging up and selling coffins to get cash...
Twenty Yale undergraduates who call themselves The Pundits stole the drum from the band room last Sunday at 7 a.m., Roy McDonald '77, the Harvard band manager, said yesterday...
...buffoon instead of a wit, and a coward instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after the highway robbery lark (Henry IV, Part I) at Gadshill. But that would have destroyed the confidence of the next King of England, so Falstaff let Hal win. And as for stabbing dead Hotspur and claiming to have killed him in battle, well, Hotspur might...
Readers further learn that Shakespeare stole from Falstaff in other dramas too. Hamlet's elegant admonition, "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," was really first uttered by Falstaffs disreputable pal Bardolph to confuse a policeman in a bawdy house. And that as early as 1459, Falstaff was reflecting: "I think for Hal the whole world was a stage and all the men and women merely players...
Elsewhere in the league, Dartmouth clung to its tenacious title hopes by beating Princeton, 34-14, despite a host of Big Green mistakes, while Penn stole a last-minute victory from the Tigers, overcoming Princeton...