Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechoslovakia, Communist Deputy Kapun strikingly echoed Nazi sentiments while discussing the question of returning Jewish property which the Nazis had stolen. (Despite promises, the Communists have returned only a fraction of such property.) Said Comrade Kapun: "Before the war, the Jews had Germanized themselves . . . We cannot trust their patriotism. The pot in which food was spoiled once smells bad even though it has been thoroughly cleansed...
Last week, Dennis told her that he wanted to divorce his "wife back East" so that he could marry her. He kissed Betty goodbye, and flew to Cleveland to sell eleven little packets of stolen diamonds. There he was trapped, almost by accident. As he sat talking to a jeweler named Irwin Nussbaum, in walked the jeweler's nephew, one Zoltan Greenhut. Greenhut remembered seeing a "wanted" poster bearing Dennis' photograph, and called police...
Police guessed that he might have stolen $600,000 in three years. Said Beverly Hills' Police Chief Clinton Anderson with admiration: ". . . One of the greatest burglars who ever operated...
TELLS OF TRYSTS WITH OPERA TENOR FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI. Across the page, they found a handsome "Raffles," who had allegedly stolen $1,000,000 in furs and jewels, and kept mistresses on both coasts and "was said to resemble Ronald Colman" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the News, they read all about a tenacious housewife whose 2-YEAR, $7,000 HUNT FINDS LOST HUSBAND-and who obviously did not intend to let him get away again...
Momentarily, Coaltown had stolen the thunder of his famed stablemate, Citation, who was in his stall convalescing from an ankle ailment. But one man, shrewd Ben Jones, insisted that Coaltown still belonged in Citation's shadow. Said Trainer Ben, who knows all there is to know about both horses: "Citation would have whipped him if he had been in there . . . Citation can catch any horse...