Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King stole the show. When Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, club president, proposed a toast to "the King," the banquet pianist thought he could mean no other King but the Prime Minister, and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared...
...years ago he stole another long race?the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup ?exactly the same way. But he isn't always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...
...first when Bucky Harrison drew a walk, went to second on a balk, and crossed the plate on Howe's blast to deep left. In the seventh, Mort Dunn walked, went to second on a wild pitch and took third on Bud Gibbs' single to left. Gibbs stole second; Dunn scored and Gibbs went to third as Harrison struck out, and scored a minute later when Gil Richards walked with the bases loaded...
...gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...
...important milestone of postwar history, but the proceedings were cut & dried, the speeches were dull, and most of the delegates looked as though they were thinking about lunch. M. Jacques Dumaine, the French government's elegant chief of protocol, stole the show. Bowing from the hips, gracefully waving his hands and toying with a monocle (made of plain glass), he ran off the signing in 25 minutes...