Word: filches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cunard White Star Line kept this great name afloat, lest others filch...
...Wranowitz, Czechoslovakia, Anton Smula bet drinking companions that he dared enter a cemetery, filch a wreath from a new grave. Next morning Anton Smula was found dead in the cemetery, his coat caught in a picket fence...
Fired by the Old Bolsheviks' confessions, the Supreme Court Judge's son and his sycophant decided to filch Soviet military secrets, skip to Germany where they would sell these to the Nazis, then take in the night spots of Europe. When his mother interfered, Mother's Boy Lintin slapped her, bashed in her head with a hammer, after which he and Sycophant Sokolov toasted the matricide in wine...
...Totteridge, Hertfordshire, a burglar raided the house of roly-poly Lord Chief Justice Baron Hewart, walked off with worthless papers. Three days later the burglar returned to filch the Lord Chief Justice's typewriter...
...work. Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account in San Francisco's Yokohama Specie Bank...