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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth Johnson again proved a thorn in Healey's side as he opened the stanza with a single and then waltzed around the sacks on a series of ludicrous boners. After getting on first, he stole second, and then tantalized Healey who threw to second to try to catch him off the bag. Johnson proceeded to third on the throw, and when the ball got away from Art Johns at second, Johnson trotted home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BLANKED BY BIG RED TEAM AT ITHACA 3 TO 0 | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...individual star was apparent in the Crimson ranks, but Tommy Ritchi for Cambridge stole the honors for the Englishmen with a total of 25 points on one try, four penalty kicks, and five conversions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Team Submerges Crimson Ruggers 50-0 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...audience was William Green, President of the A. F. of L.; conspicuously absent was John L. Lewis, who is at outs with I. L. G. W. U.'s Dubinsky. During the song One Big Union for Two, which is propaganda for the C. I. O., Green stole the spotlight from the actors, remained composed but looked uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Two-a-Night | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Haiti (by William Du Bois; produced by James R. Ullman under the auspices of the Federal Theatre). Last week Harlem stole some of Broadway's thunder. The Federal Theatre offered Haiti there with a half-white, half-Negro cast, and a half-white, half-Negro audience united in applauding it. The vivid set was the work of Perry Watkins, the only professional Negro stage designer in the U. S. Playwright Du Bois (Pagan Lady) has plundered- and partly falsified-history for a swift, swaggering, shoot-to-kill melodrama about the Haitian Negro uprising of 1802 under Henri Christophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 10,000 Fingers | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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