Word: pilfering
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...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...
...similarity between this plot and hard-boiled Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is great but not suspicious. Ida A. R. Wylie, author of Children of Storm, The Mad Busman, has literary stature, would never stoop to pilfer...
...name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant...
...invalid should pilfer...