Word: theft
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...while this classical theft goes on and on and librarians mutter occultly, button, button, who's got the button, several janitors recommend that men keep their doors locked when they leave their rooms, and play their Schubert in a dark closet...
...DAFFODIL AFFAIR - Michael Innes - Dodd, Mead ($2). For those who like sinister Chestertonian foolery, a completely fantastic and delightful story of the kidnapping of a young English girl with a dual personality, the theft of a learned horse ("Daffodil") and the disappearance of a Bloomsbury mansion. Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard travels from England .to the jungles of South America for the amazing solution...
...increase in car theft, and the stripping of tires from parked cars...
Aldro T. Hibbard, president of Rockport's Art Association, wired the Dial Press: "I was shocked to the camel-haired bristles of my paintbrush. . . . We of Rockport colony have always looked upon Provincetown as a weak sister in the field of art and this theft of our most sacred subject is a confession that the little village is minus a house suitable to be reproduced in the book by Mrs. Vorse...
Badman Bogart has been cashiered from the U.S. Army for theft. But it soon becomes apparent that this was merely a ruse to put him to work in Army Intelligence. His quarry is Sociologist Greenstreet, brain of a Japanese plot to bomb the Panama Canal. At Colon, nerveless Hero Bogart busts the plot, shoots down the Japanese bomber with a captured machine gun, and all ends gruesomely...