Word: filches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steinbeck's paisanos, remains of the original Spanish settlers above Monterey, are a simple, indolent, pleasure-loving lot who live in happy poverty on ramshackle Tortilla Flat. Pilon and his band of rascally idlers would rather filch their beloved food and wine and sleep out under the giant redwood trees than earn their keep by chopping squids in the town below. They are probably the most harmless, insignificant people alive, but Steinbeck's story of religious faith and the good works it inspired lifts them out of their humble uselessness, preaching the essential dignity of all mankind...
Professional pickpockets started the goal post fight after the Dartmouth game last Saturday and then exploited the confusion to filch four or five watches and as many wallets, sleuth Bill Bingham asserted yesterday...
Individually most of my countrymen are too honest and too inept to filch anything smaller than the moomoo's egg. Nationally Bulgaria has never shone in the badger game of territorial expansion...
Wilfred Grenfell spent his boyhood on the Sands of Dee near Cheshire, England. He used to filch biscuits and wine from his school larder to give to fishermen as they left at dawn to catch the early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, "thrilled," decided to become a physician. After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador...