Word: plunderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plunder & Death, Cautiously at first, then rapidly, joyously, riotously Havana's streets became full. With no soldiers to stop them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
...World's Fair this June will scarcely be able to miss one exhibit in the Hall of Science. Soldiers in Colonial uniforms will guard a case 18 in. square and 3 ft. high. The case will be made of bullet-proof steel. Its top will be made of plunder-proof, non-shatterable glass. It will be bolted to the concrete floor and weighted down with iron. A combination safe lock will guard its contents. Peering through the non-shatterable glass the sight-seer will see, fastened to a silver rod, George Washington's false teeth, the lower...
...PLUNDER-Frederic F. Van de Water- Crime Club ($2). State Cop Tarleton loses his man, his job; fights the gangs alone...
...ordinary trainwreck, but one accompanied by a fierce armed attack in the dead of night, with the bandits intent on kidnapping, plunder and murder...
Making a vital distinction between "mass" and "class," he defines "mass-mind" as the commonplace mind, no matter in what class it is found. The massman is barbarian, only concerned with his own wellbeing, content to plunder civilization, not labor intelligently to continue it. By his definition of "barbarian" Ortega y Gasset covers a multitude of public "leaders": "If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. That, in fact, is the position of the massman when he speaks, lectures...