Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that in June 1918 the Bolsheviki confiscated oil fields, refineries, machinery, stocks, assets and even the "trinkets and jewelry belonging to employes." Added he: " "Politically, this is called confiscation; practically, all these objects were stolen, not by representatives of the people, but by a gang who, by controlling the army, had usurped the power to do anything which would not have been tolerated otherwise...
...loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean to the wheezing and blaring of an antique accordion, and his ultimate escape from the English in a stolen officer's uniform would tax a reader's credulity if they were not already matters of record...
...Blood Ship. The captain is a ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...
Returning (in 1926), the Ambassador ran into a series of complications. There was the incident of the suspected Bolshevist influence in the Mexican Government. There was the war between the Calles Administration and the Roman Catholic Church. Later there were the documents stolen from the U. S. Department of State and discovered in the custody of the Mexican Government. These documents were particularly annoying inasmuch as they contained many unpleasant reflections on the Mexican Government, but their most sensational passages were later found to be forgeries, interpolated by the same knavish hand which first had stolen them...
...installation is the first instance in this country where a skyscraper office building will utilize the scientifically-established health benefit of the sun's vital rays. ... If the exigencies of business rob its men and women of natural physical advantages and if science perfects means of returning the stolen goods, it seems to us to be the duty of business to admit the theft and to make amends by acceping the contributions of science. If we were to view this move solely as an investment, on which we might expect a profitable return, we are confident that vitaglazed windows...