Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Days were forgotten. Then someone struck a stray cow and broke the rocket. Eng assembled his neighbors, and each contributed to the price for repair. Another one stole part of the car for himself and did not tell Eng. Finding it gone, Eng became angry and beat his head. He began to punish those who misused the car by using it more himself. Then he used it when he was not punishing. People wondered, but said nothing, for Eng could do no wrong. But soon Eng had the rocket most of the time, and he frowned when any neighbor asked...
...fond of the Cherry Hill prison, having been in it pretty consistently for 20 years. Shortly afterward he was set free-75 and still surprisingly spry. Two months later he was arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a suitcase from an automobile. So last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough...
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (Twentieth Century-Fox). Warner Oland, still cinema's most dependably entertaining detective, liberally equipped with aphorisms in pidgin English and accompanied by his No. 1 son, Keye Luke, interrupts a vacation to find out who stole a million dollars in bonds...
...Federal Art Project classes are as fresh as cinema tots are synthetic. Last week the first U. S. art gallery devoted exclusively to work by 4-to-15-year-old talents opened in Washington, sponsored jointly by WPA and city officials. But a Federal Art Project class in Manhattan stole the children's show of the week with an exhibition of paintings, under each of which WPA Instructor Victor Laredo had stuck the artist's verbal description of his work. Samples: ¶ "Hey, you know who this is? It's my cousin 'Butch...
...Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Sherifa Achmetashevitch's pearls vanished overnight from the table on which she had left them. Weeks later, a servant spied a pearl in a mousehole, scrabbled about until all were recovered. The mouse that stole them had eaten the catgut string...