Word: looted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gambling dens and brothels, with their picaresque inmates, falls short of melodrama without losing excitement. The faithful account of all the greatest gang leaders sometimes runs to a monotony of horrors, but is soon varied with naive tong wars, and prosperous "fences"-fat women who bought and sold the loot of robbers...
...thumbs with ragged nails gouged out the eyes of stubborn misers or those who really had no gold. Finally surviving citizens of Leiyang were herded and penned into buildings which were lighted and burned amid awful outcries. The heathen, glutted to repletion, spread their grins and carried off their loot. Supplementary despatches confirmed that those burned & butchered numbered approximately...
...overnight's swim brings her to company less aggressive but very dull, so after a few weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that have already turned wolflike, and finally battling with brutish fellows for the possession of his woman...
...pursued beyond the door the brazen prowler merely transferred his activities to the North Entry where he continued to loot the wealth of the Gold Coast, leaving at about 5 o'clock in the morning. Hours later walling and gnashing teeth resulted from an inventory of student stock and the "goodies" worked late into the day carrying out the torn hair of those who had to cancel all weekend festivities due to financial embarrassment...