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...Colonel Rollett, his red whiskers now streaked with grey, read the Legion roll of honor. The band blared "La Marseillaise," then rollicking war songs, the slightly sinister airs of the only military force in the civilized world today which, when it captures a town, has officially the right to loot, the Legion's cherished Droit de Pillage...
WARRANT FOR PASTOR IN FUR THEFTS; LOOT CACHED IN ORGAN AT PARK FALLS...
Revolution came to Kiangsu and gave Wang Lung a lucky break. In the uproar he stumbled on a good windfall of loot, and back they all went to Anhwei. The farm was in a dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing...
...this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory to neither branch of the species: the hunter and the ape are allies against death-by-violence as symbolized by the tiger. Once the orangutans loot the hunter's hut but for the most part they are mannerly, sagacious, and amusing. With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys; they swarm across rivers, run up vines, keep a lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor...
...last week, for the huge terra cotta New Colonial Hotel ($16 to $44 per day) was opening its winter season. On the site of the elegant New Colonial once stood old Fort Nassau where the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious whiskers in fine points, braided them with gay ribbons in peace, with smouldering slow matches in war. Bootleggers load their ships at Nassau today. Not far from the New Colonial Hotel is the Bahamian Club, a discreet drinking, gambling resort that used...