Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakdown of the statistics of the game show the Crimson gained 200 yards and one date with a Wellesleyite rushing. The passing attack of the junior misses failed in the heat, and the scoring laurels clearly went to a collection of non-collegiate rooters who stole the applejack in the water bucket early in the last period...
...Payoff: Twelve Cigars. Times changed. Prohibition put Hinky Dink out of his saloon; Al Capone stole much of his power. Bathhouse John died in 1938, old and broke. But Hinky Dink stayed on at his old stand in the First Ward. Then, in 1943, diabetes and old age beat him down. He retired to a hotel room. His fortune (estimated at $2,000,000) afforded him but little comfort beyond the dozen $1 cigars he smoked every day. He died attended only by a male nurse...
...abashed bonus seekers packed up their pup tents and silently stole away...
...doctor finally let him out of bed, Anthony started making up for lost time in a hurry. Perhaps he was too fast; he was impatient with anything that stood in his way. He made some bad mistakes. The police tagged him as a delinquent. Then he stole a $30 rifle, was sent off to the Colorado Industrial School for Boys at nearby Golden. There Anthony, now 14, got in trouble again: he broke the silence rule going in to supper, offered another boy his plate because he wasn't hungry himself...
...stubborn mule' became 'Not to pick up a penny from a stubborn mule.' . . . Another verse about Grandpa Bill and his new wife. 'There he is at 93, doin' what comes natur'lly' . . . was thrown out and 'Uncle Ben, who stole chickens just as naturally as he breathed,' was substituted...