Word: lootings
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...QUICKLY FORGOTTEN DENMARK, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM. CERTAINLY GERMANY WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING IRISH PORTS ON GROUND OF USEFULNESS BUT WHEN HAS GERMANY EVER FELT NEED FOR JUSTIFYING HER GRABS EXCEPT WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK? . . . SHE TAKES WHAT SHE WANTS WITH NO INTENTION OF RETURNING THE LOOT IF SHE IS VICTOR WHEN HOSTILITIES CEASE. IRELAND WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM BRITAIN IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES, AS MR. BRENNAN AND HIS GOVERNMENT WELL KNOW. . . . IF AS RESULT OF IRELAND'S STAND BRITAIN IS OVERCOME BY SUBMARINE AND SEA BOMBING ATTACKS OF NAZIS, EIRE WILL SEE HOW GRATEFUL THE NAZIS...
...Syracuse, N. Y. police discovered that Wayman G. Woody invited his friends to dinner, left his wife to entertain them, stole out to loot their homes...
...Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military and civil defense services were...
...fire of 1871 let loose Chicago's underworld for a brazen orgy of pillage, "the richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
...ready cash may have unusual opportunities during the next few years to acquire important paintings." Reason: only foreign exchange (preeminently dollars) can now get pictures out of Europe. The Germans, having sold a great deal from the public and private collections of greater Germany, are believed ready to dump looted pictures from occupied nations. Billy Rose has heard that agents are on the way with booty from the Louvre. But, added he, "I won't buy loot. I wouldn't pay $50 for the Mona Lisa under those conditions...