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...length the rulers of the city fled, and the foreigners, as rats leave a ship; and the city fell. Ling's village endured the plunder of their own retreating army, and prepared to meet the enemy. They decided to make ready tea and small cakes and fruits, and courteously to welcome the invaders outside their village, "and thus in decency and honor the conquest would take place...
...Hoppy's fabulous plunder, most (invested in A. G. & E. securities) had disappeared in the depression. Besides his $20,-000,000 (more or less) liability to A. G. & E., he owed about $4,000,000 in back income taxes to the Federal Government...
...schedule to other positions," the Italians evacuated the city, leaving behind warehouses full of equipment. Perhaps by the standards of modern warfare the booty was not great, but to the Greeks, accustomed to eating bean soup and black bread and carrying hand-me-down arms, it was immense. This plunder was, after the strategic factors and the enormous boost to Greek and British morale, the third most important thing about the fall of Corizza. It was said to comprise enough small arms and ammunition to outfit two Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than the entire Greek Army had when...
...which legend has buried about its shores. Biggest find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...
...isolated examples of still-unreturned Napoleonic plunder, such as Fra Angelico's Coronation of the Virgin, the Italian title is clear-cut. But some of the Italian claims are unverifiable or downright shady. It is true that the Mona Lisa once hung in Bonaparte's bedroom at the Tuileries, but that was three centuries after its purchase by Francis I, onetime patron of its painter. Records indicate that the picture remained in France until its theft from the Louvre in 1911 by an Italian. But Fascista was longer on acquisitive patriotism than on logic. Said Fascista...