Word: looted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thin Ice. The crook world has a woman's pure love showered on it again. This cinema unfolds the manner in which an artful dodger, Tom Moore by name, has his seedy character disinfected by artless Edith Roberts. To regain some lost bank loot through her, a gang of robbers plant Moore in her confidence as her long-lost brother-and romance becomes imperative. Still, it's much better than it sounds...
...olden days, before the era of national armies, soldiers were recruited with glittering visions of the loot that would be theirs after the victory...
Today the soldier has still to be recruited. Instead of loot, he is promised a voyage to parts of the great outside world. He is shown on dazzling posters the life that may be his when he is off duty. Looting is not mentioned, as are not drill, fatigues, button-cleaning, etc. In most armies, in fact, looting is a crime...
General Chang did not believe in looting; he became angry, wrote orders in enigmatic Chinese. Every man that was found with loot or confessed to looting was condemned...
...Loot: Women's stockings, 56 pairs; bathing suits, 5; gloves, 8 pairs; camera films, 141 packages; men's shirts, 45; overcoats, 5; shirt-waists, 5; vests, 3; clothes, 2 suits; bath rugs, 3; sweaters, 6; tuxedo suits, 1; men's hose, 1; American flags, 2; lace curtains, 3 pairs; revolver, 1; Winchester rifles, 2; Ithaca shotgun, 1; L. C. Smith shotgun, 1; towels, 1; rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies...