Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motley rang the bell three times. Twice his mates, Manheimer and Motley set the ball up for him when they stole the ball from the opposition and passed quickly and accurately. The other time saw Motley blast it into the corner from a scrimmage several yards...
...proceedings with considerable verve and a singing voice that does credit to her family. By a strange turn of affairs, after five reels spent in manipulating the affections of Boles and the checkbook of Walburn, Miss Lee is eating dinner in the very tavern where the thug who stole her boss's negative is bragging about his exploit. Best song: I Found a Dream...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...
Fleeing Yankee soldiers after his first killing, "Wes" Hardin ambushed them, killed three. Then he hid in central Texas and, with his cousin "Simp" Dixon, killed two more, which made him a popular Texan in the eyes of ex-Confederates. At 16 Hardin, mocked by a desperado who stole his gun and boots, salved his pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed...
...lovely but mysterious wife who was thought to have been a bad woman. She quarreled with her only daughter, who resented the unconcealed and unashamed favoritism that Mrs. Fury showed for Peter. Mrs. Fury went hungry and never complained, humiliated herself begging money from her scornful children, even stole ?12 that her gruff husband had painfully saved, all for Peter's sake. Then Peter was expelled from college. On the same day that she heard the news. Mrs. Fury learned that another son had been hurt at sea. but she scarcely thought of her injured boy in her rage...