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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...should shift from chinos to gray flannels. Vag remembered that, of course, he never did. Even those Japanese kids were beginning to resemble. Harvard Square urchins. But, decided Vag, the propositions they were screaming were even more ribald than those hurled by Cambridge gamins. Besides, the Cambridge brats only stole your wallet at goal post riots. At least they never stole hub caps off a moving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vag in Yokosuka | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

Roger. In Chicago, the day after a thief stole his 37 prize homing pigeons, Fred Semro was happy to find that seven of the birds had returned, then read a note attached to one pigeon's leg: "You'll never see the rest again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

About the nicest compliment Savo Radulovic ever got was a letter from a suburban housewife who came to see his paintings in a Philadelphia gallery last week. Before her visit, the lady wrote, her greatest ambition was to have "a mink stole and a sterling silver coffee service." Now, she would rather own a Radulovic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Better Than Mink | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...band of Kikuyu women, naked except for thongs of leather tied round their shaven heads, recently stole out from a bamboo thicket on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Armed with shiny pangas, they crept into a Kikuyu village, killed three Kikuyu men and a 14-year-old boy. The victims were Kikuyu guards, loyal to the white men and pledged to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slaughter in Kenya | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Miss Body, whose off-stage name is Mary Goodneighbor, stated last night: "Any talk about my performance being immoral is ridiculous. Why, I wear 60 yards of orchid tulle in the skirt of my dancing frock alone and 35 pounds of bugle beading on the stole and bustle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police May Close Old Howard After Pinch of 3 Girls | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

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