Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitted out Captain William Andrews, a onetime piano-maker, with $50 and groceries, blessed the captain's departure from Atlantic City for Palos, Spain, in a 14½-ft. sloop called the Sapolio. When Captain Andrews turned up at Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
Captain Eddie Gerry stole the scoring honors of the night by pushing in six markers with his mallet, while Skiddy von Stade tallied the other five Crimson points. Townsend Winmill had his hands full keeping the Army sharp-shooters from running up the score and so did not have a chance to enter the scoring ranks himself...
...Stole his employer's money to pay note guaranteed by his employer...
...fidelity business of the company consists of bonding employees. The foregoing quotations in italics are from a "sales kit" used by National salesmen to convince employers of the necessity for bonding employees. One harrowing case history tells of a bank with deposits of $101,000 from which the cashier stole $93,000. Another told of a publishing-house cashier, a "weak, vacillating individual dominated by an extravagant wife," who stole $67,490 to keep up his social standing. Salesmen are instructed to emphasize the dangers of under-bonding, to cite the case of a tobacco company cashier who was bonded...
Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...