Word: theft
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...around Cambridge while the innocent owners sleep. I really believe such foolishness to be a thing of the past until this morning. I discovered I myself had been victimized. A Ford, which I had left behind Claverly Hall in violation of a seldom-enforced rule had disappeared. Of course, theft seemed the most plausible explanation at first, but a few anxious minutes of inquiry disclosed the annoying truth My subsequent round of travel exposed me to master-pieces of red tape. Only after being shunted around from Church Street to Lehman Hall, and from there back to two garages...
Meanwhile the Communists and the Socialists "stole" with all possible energy. They accomplished the first stage of what their enemies call "a gigantic legal theft" by whooping up 10,000,000 Germans to cast ballots calling for a national referendum (TIME, March 15) on the question of whether property belonging to the former German nobility and seized by the Republic may be retained without compensating the original owners...
...plot, or rather the puzzle, starts with a string of stolen pearls. Two reformed cracksmen are unjustly accused of the theft and are severely put to it to prove their innocence when the very pearls turn up in their apartments...
...York, Wisconsin and Canada called on the President and urged him to oppose any effort by Chicago to withdraw more water from Lake Michigan for sanitary purposes than is now allowed: "Chicago now presents the brazen spectacle of undertaking to induce the national Congress to sanctify a bold theft into an honest act. We strenuously protest against any legislation at the hands of Congress that may sanction the abstraction of water likely to lower the levels of the Great Lakes...
Abduction, Theft...