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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after another the girls put the uncomplaining Pontiac through tests more fiendish than any proving grounds ever devised. The one who always shifted without touching the clutch quite stole the show. On the way back to Cambridge after the ordeal, Mr. Yordan spouted elements of safe driving and made a pronounced full stop at every "stop" street, which touched the Vagabond's conscience. He resolved to reform. The Bureau for Street Traffic Research and the Newton girls had shown him the light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...complications concern a movie producer's (Adolph Menjou's) search for a plot with the human touch, which was possibly just what Mr. Goldwyn himself was seeking. Andrea Leeds, the dark horse who almost stole the show in "Stage Door," maintains her standard as "Miss Humanity." The technicolor is not glaring and therefore impressive. Undoubtedly the high spots of the movie are the ballet scenes, which are worth seeing even after the Chicago fire, the hurricane, and the locusts. And the title need arouse no apprehension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

...delighted Imperial German Government soon transferred Hero Niemoller to the larger, modern U-151 and this submarine on a single marauding 114-day voyage hung up a record of 55,000 tons of Allied shipping gesunken. Commander Niemoller was next given the UC-67 with which he stole about outside Marseille, managed to sink so many French ships that the port was ordered temporarily closed. So many Allied sub-chasers were then assigned to get the UC-67? that even Daredevil Niemoller saw the game was up, cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dynamite | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Wellesley stole a march on the Lampooners when they got a free dinner in the Mount Auburn Street den; then they got their own dictionary introduced as the arbiter of the advertising-contract sponsored "clash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELLESLEY WOMEN WHIP LAMPOON'S LOGY LOUTS | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past the Wesley Oaks to the Christ Church rectory. He fingered a .38, peered through a downstairs window, fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On St. Simons Island | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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