Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About that character portrait of Westbrook Pegler opposite Joe Curran's in the August 30 issue of TIME and which Pegler's [newspaper] column . . . implies that you stole: can you tell us the story...
Suitcaseful. In Philadelphia, the thief who stole Gladys Ferber's suitcase may or may not have been happy about the swag in it: two strip-tease dresses, a string of beads, three feathers, a sarong, a net brassiere, a rhinestone G-string, and a purple Cellophane shirt...
Between these main events, a group of greying, balding, potbellied oldtimers-stumped out to the positions at which they wrere once unrivaled-and promptly stole the show. Before Babe Ruth parked one of Walter Johnson's pitches in the stands, he popped three easy fly balls; once-peerless Right Fielder Murray muffed the first one; once-infallible Second Baseman Collins and Center Fielder Speaker followed suit. Said Speaker: "When you're away from baseball 13 years, they sure jump at you." The oldtimers were terrible but the galleries loved them...
Look at the facts. The robbers stole thirty-nine dollars. On the night of August 31. The last day of the month. They approached in a group of two. Armed with lethal weapons, guns. The picture becomes clearer with each new piece of evidence, doesn...
...Getaway. One day the struggle to sustain morale got too much for Hélion. From the ship's black market, where a few intrepid souls stole, bought and sold civilian garments for purposes of escape, Hélion bought a complete outfit. He obtained the forged leave-card and passport of a Belgian worker which were to take him successfully all the way across Germany into then unoccupied France...