Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Bloomingdale's puffed such items as quilted skirts, velveteen trousers (for "after skiing"), and powder-blue parkas embroidered with Alpine flowers described as "too pretty to be tucked in." At Saks Fifth Avenue, Sophie Gimbel paraded a ground-length after-skiing ensemble with stole (price...
Augustus John painted her portrait. It stole the show one year at the Royal Academy and now hangs opposite her bed in Windows, where it is the first thing she sees when she wakes up. In 1932, she turned down...
Clipped Sheep. In Wayland, N.Y., the Rev. Adelbert Schneider considered the thief who stole the church's lawnmower: "I hope . . . he will be bothered by conscience and return the mower. And if he has no conscience, I hope he cuts his fingers...
...they turned for help to Carla's boy friend, Tullio, leader of a gang which preyed on the ruins of the town and prepared arms for a future Communist uprising. Tullio installed them in an abandoned brothel, where the three set up house, living off the money Tullio stole and Carla made as a prostitute...
Convalescence. In Sydney, Australia, police were looking for the victim of a motorcycle accident who stole the ambulance that was taking him to the hospital...