Word: looter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crowds were so thick that few got a good look at the paintings. U.S. Army officials had planned, and promised, to ship the whole show back to Germany as soon as it closed. General Lucius Clay insisted their prompt return would be proof that one conqueror was not a looter. Several Congressmen were equally insistent that more Americans should be allowed to see the paintings. Last week the Army worked out a Solomonic compromise...
...rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...