Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less comprehensive title was awarded to Austine Cassini, modish Washington Times-Herald columnist. The title: "Most Magnificent Doll among American Newspaperwomen." The loot: a silver-plated typewriter. Also a trip to the premiere of a movie titled The Magnificent Doll...
...week's end, those few clear facts had been culled out of the mad confusion of the world press. In London, the Daily Mail fell overboard, estimated the value of the loot at $2 million. U.S. papers wildly reported that two socialite women were under suspicion, and that the Duchess had stored part of her million-dollar collection in a safe-deposit vault. The Duchess regretfully denied that one: ". . . It was stupid. I've been kicking myself all over the place." The Duchess was asked to describe the basis on which she selected jewels to match her costumes...
Lost & Found. In St. Louis, authorities had no trouble rounding up two burglary suspects. Reason: the pair advertised part of the loot in a local paper...
...fight to make the world safe for such tyranny as the British practice in Palestine-they send people to rot in concentration camps without trial or even charge, confiscate, search and loot without process of law. Americans once revolted for less...
...gangs overran the town, stoned, knifed and clubbed Europeans and non-Tudeh Persians, and pillaged and wrecked their homes. Then, at the riot's height, a band of 400 desert pirates crossed the muddy Shattel-Arab, raided the bazaar section and fled back across the river with their loot...