Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaken but still hopeful, De Ferrari took the children on to the mission school at Puerto Ayacucho. They stole clothes, tried to set fire to the buildings. One night they stole away. They were not seen again...
...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...Florence art dealer wants his Italian masters back. Who gets the impressionists will involve some nice figuring as to how many were legitimately sold, how many were "sold" under pressure, how many Fatso simply stole...
Short Changer. In Harford, N.Y.. a thief stole 13 six-pound chickens from the flock of Mrs. William Voorhees, left 13 four-pounders in their place...
...battle kept up in the fifth when the Crimson came back to tally once more. Bucek got the second of the three hits he slammed out during the day, but was forced at second by Steve Davis. Davis, following the general pattern of things, stole second, and then came home when Jack Forte smashed a long double past the center fielder...