Word: theft
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...Toronto, Olive Kehoe was charged with theft. Evidence: a frying pan in the seat of her underwear...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
Dear Diary. In London, Actress Hermione Gingold discreetly overlooked the theft of her ration book, furs, dresses and whiskey, appealed for the return of her diary, because "it has telephone numbers essential to my plans...
Irate Citizen. In Jersey City, Carl Thomas unwisely reported the theft of his car to police, who discovered that it had been stolen once before-by Thomas...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...