Word: filches
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...spot is a 230-acre enclosure, the State Fair Grounds, with an auditorium that will hold some 10,000 persons. With this edifice packed, a crowd of 35,000 milled outside. They had eaten the town out of food supplies. They were so thick that pickpockets were able to filch $500 from Norman H. Davis ($150 of which he was guarding for Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson), and $125 each from two Manhattan newspapermen...
That the Yale News is, if one may filch unrebuked from the News itself, "still vivacious at fiftieth milestone," makes even more agreeable her arrival into what is still a very limited category...
When thieves filch a necklace, society's prime interest is in seeing the thieves caught & convicted. The owner of the necklace, however, is primarily interested in recovering the necklace...
...With all such as may desire to filch these gifts we wish to live in peace and harmony, yea, even in open sincere amity, as without them we also cannot live a life of progress or rise to that greatness and glory which do honor to the sons of men. This is the substance of my ideas. It interprets all my proposals, all of which you know. Peace." (Signed) "ABD-EL-KRIM, El Khattabi...
...speech, that, if the decision of the Boundary Commission were unacceptable to the Ulster Parliament and no other honorable solution could be found, he would resign, place himself at the head of the people as their chosen leader to defend any territory which the Boundary Commission might wish to filch from them...