Word: looted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides the Baron's death warrant. The candlesticks are filched en route, pawned at Budapest, shipped to Paris, auctioned in London. By the time the Countess and the Baron have caught up with the loot, they have fairly forsaken duty for love, for which they are promptly pardoned by the Tsar in person...
...called in because the mob had previously taken some loot across a State line), local officers and police from four States were out in force after the Brady mob when two mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...
...often on moving trains, choose sparsely settled country where a highway runs beside the tracks. Swinging off from box car roofs on rope ladders, they break the seals on the doors, climb in and toss out everything they can lay their hands on. Confederates in trucks pick up the loot...
Tokyo dispatches last week reported such high "Rearmament fever" that Japanese miscreants were stealing knobs off doors, absconding with household plumbing, selling their metallic loot to the Imperial Government's munitions foundries & shipyards...
There in a squalid hovel of mats she teaches her children to beg, goes out alone in the midst of rioting to help loot a rich merchant's house. Though trampled and nearly shot, she gets away with a pouch of jewels. She gives them to Wang, keeping only two pearls-"not to wear-I am too plain-but to look at when I am alone...