Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly not funny. The only one who manages to smile...
...rook," and he advanced a pawn...