Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon Jack Morgan decided to keep the dwindling food and water, laid in for a two-day trip, to himself. On the fourth day, Christmas Eve, thoroughly scared, Spernak and Home managed to steal up to Jack Morgan, fell him with a marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...
...William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in the meantime opened an investigation of Sam Wilson's action in ordering police to circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action . . . ask the district attorney to prosecute for misfeasance . . . ask the courts to appoint a lunacy commission for the mayor...
...were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will look at the Eighth Commandment [Thou shalt not steal] you will find it difficult to reconcile with it what has been done here today. ... In 1917 we had war. The Government . . . offered the best investment on earth, the promise to pay in gold coin. It continued to do this for ten years. Then the President and Congress denied...
...Borrow or Steal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frank Morgan, as a "steerer" of European tourists, poses as proprietor of a chateau in order to provide for his visiting daughter, Florence Rice. The dialog is wittier and the characters better rounded than usual in this type of program-filler...
...those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia's old-line Publisher James Lippincott was not anxious to have his writers speak at the Book Fair. He was afraid that other publishers would steal them...