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Word: stoled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the innards of his guitar. A woman in the audience asked him, "What you got in there-dirty pictures?" After that, the Flames started looking for a new third. Two years ago, they found a bearded West Indian named Tiger Haynes ("he's a frantic guy"), and stole him from a trio called Plink, Plank and Plunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ya Ess Goony Gress | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Dorothy Kirsten, Met soprano, was left on the dock. She had come down, bag & handsome baggage, hoping to pick up a canceled reservation, but couldn't. "I feel . . . jilted," she pouted, adjusting her mink stole. Her pressagent said a pitiless reporter pried open one of her fortnighters to see if there was really something inside. There really was, the pressagent reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Judgments | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...scoring was completed when Dick Harrison swung at a pitch that bounced out of reach of the catcher for a dropped third strike and proceeded to second before the ball could be recovered. He then stole home from second on a wild throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrison Shuts Out Eliot Nine 4-0 To Begin Intramural Competition | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...just knocked Napoleon across the kitchen with a baseball bat. Jimmy, a single-minded lush, had a frightful temper. Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved him dearly, and his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jimmy's Jeebies | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...couple of days later, at the traditionally kaleidoscopic "Trooping the Color" in honor of King George's official birthday (his real birthday is Dec. 14), Princess Elizabeth stole another typically British show with a display of equestrienne perfection (see cut) as she rode sidesaddle in the parade in the uniform of a Grenadier Guards' colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One of Those Things | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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