Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although he added only one stolen base to his total during the week, Burns is still far out in front in the base-running figures, with 24 purloined hassocks chalked beside his name. Jones, with six stolen sacks, is his closest competitor in the line of predatory base running...
...moment later, Mr. Lloyd George, comfortably replete, heard from the man who had stolen his coat piteous words: "Lor', Guv'nor, Hi didn't knaow 'twus yern. ... Hi cadged hit cuz Hi wus caold. . . . S'help...
...Jones '28 are the only regulars beside Donaghy whose averages have gone up as a result of their hitting in the last three games. H. W. Burns '28 still leads the field in runs scored with 19, almost a fourth of the team's total, and has also stolen as many bases as the rest of his team-mates put together. His total of 23 steals so far this year shatters all previous records, the highest individual total at the close of the 1926 season being seven shared by Captain C. L. Todd '26 and W. B. Jones...
Other news, equally vague, came out of the U. S. Department of State last week. The investigation of charges that forged documents had been used to stir up hostility between the U. S. and Mexico (TIME, April 11) led to the discovery of 300 stolen Department of State papers. These were said to have been sold by a U. S. employe to President Calles of Mexico. The Department of State hushed up the incident; announced that the leak had been found, that President Calles had returned the documents, that Mexico and the U. S. understood each other. Several...
...Covered Wagon" motif and hence will no doubt be popular in the balloting. His tall spare woman leans forward as she scrutinizes the prairie horizon for her Dan'l, who is probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared in Paris, has breathed prim New England into his model...