Word: pilfering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities for new and starting attacks given such human material. The quarterback could swipe the other team's signals and the boys would always be able to steal a march on the enemy. With a thefty 200-pound line and a sly backfield, the boys could carry the pilfer a touchdown every time...
...E.Notman, a clerk dismissed by the Glasgow office of the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This bank, as many English banks used to do, operates on the theory that if a low-paid employe marries, the needs of his wife & children may sooner or later tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years ago it had reached ?160, and both Mr. Notman and his longtime fiancée were getting desperate...
...room who has come to steal her jewelry. He is a disgraced nobleman. They fall in love, her self-confidence returns, he returns her belongings, sets out to get money enough to accompany her to Vienna. But they never get to Vienna, for he is shot while attempting to pilfer money from the room of an industrialist...