Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deportment: B. Madeline and Eileen had often been mischievous nuisances. Once Margaret Patton tattled when one of the girls stole money from her mother's apartment. The older girls began feuding with Margaret and her brother, William, who threw a bottle which cut Madeline. Last autumn the older girls' teacher began giving them as much special attention as was possible in the busy public-school life. The girls, too, made an effort, got As in deportment. This term they had slipped back to Bs, but the teacher still had hopes for them...
...Madeline and Eileen came late to school, saw some report cards unguarded in an office. They stole the cards to learn their marks. Margaret Patton saw the theft, reported it, and was overheard by Madeline and Eileen. Said Madeline: ''Let's kill somebody so we'll be sent away to a home; my parents don't treat me right...
Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry...
Those lines-"limped home a furry wreck but safe at last. And to sleep with him went every child who ever stole out of bounds to see for himself what was over the horizon"-have the Beatrix Potter touch themselves...
...Alliance's quickie production stole no scenes from the Free Worlders. More than 300 of screendom's best-dressed thinkers, from Jack Benny's Rochester to Thomas Mann, turned up to hear Henry Wallace. Marquee names on the committee included Jimmy Cagney, veteran Hollywood labor leader, Rosalind Russell and Charles Boyer. Heading them all was Dudley Nichols, who wrote the screen version of The Bell, and put in it what little antiFascism finally peeped through the Technicolor...