Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dink controversy ended without any clear-cut decision; the emasculated cane spree stole the "class spirit" that same...
...editors of the Rutgers Targum have called the theft "nothing but poor sportsmanship." Their editorial goes on to brand the men who stole the Little Red Cannon "poor losers...
...Light-Fingered. In Gooding, Idaho, someone stole off with a 20-ton steel bridge. In Del Mar, Calif., somebody made away with J. E. Moreno's brick wall. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. E. C. Leonard lost her handbag to an autoist who grabbed it as he tore past. In Uniontown, Pa., a strange dog snatched Dora Bookchin's purse...
...Labor. Many labor unions, mostly C.I.O., picketed him. A thousand pickets greeted him in San Francisco. In Los Angeles more than 500 unionists jammed the block in front of the Elks Temple. Some bore signs with crude legends like: "Taft is a stinker, Taft is a schnook, Taft stole a leaf out of Hitler's story book." Some, who were promptly arrested (under a city ordinance) for masquerading, wore Taft-like masks and carried signs which read: "I look like Taft but I don't want to crucify labor...
Light-Fingered. In Palm City, Calif., someone stole a telephone pole...