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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people steal, cheat, and kill?" he asked his audience. "Does punishment keep them from doing, these things? So far the world have always been poor," and with wonderful irony, "rich people don't go to jail because they are all good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARROW CONDEMNS OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IN TALK | 4/30/1927 | See Source »

...three years and nine months Private Fowler hid in a space 5½ feet high and 20 inches deep. Sometimes at night he dared to steal out and sit with his protectress before her fire-but no chance to escape ever came. Not until Oct. 10, 1918, did the Germans march away. Then Private Fowler took Mme. Belmont-Gobert in his arms, dashed water over her face and gave her a sup of wine-she had fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Left-hand Door | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...little while ago Battling Nelson went to the movies, and saw a picture of the fight. When the show was over, he went to steal the film. He had been licked once- that was enough. Nobody was going to have the chance again of seeing him staggering stupidly around a ring with blood dripping out of both eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nelson v. Wolgast | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...freedom of the married woman only to wax illogically furious upon discovering that his wife (played by Florence Eldridge) had once been free. From then on, it is every man's wife for him. Naturally there was much to be said and suffered before a harassed audience could steal away on the first night without embarrassing the well-liked playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Honor thy father and thy mother (5). 2) Thou shalt have no other gods before Me (1). 3) Thou shalt not kill (6). 4) Thou shalt not commit adultery (7). 5) Thou shalt not steal (8). 6) Thou shalt not bear false witness (9). 7) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain (3). . . . 8) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (2). . . . ) Thou shalt not covet (10).... 10) Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Commandments | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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