Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Review. He had been running the paper since the end of the war. Shanghai-born Bill Powell worked with 0WI during the war, tossing leaflets out of Army bombers over occupied Hong Kong and Canton. When he got back to the Review he found most of its fine library stolen, the wiring and switches ripped from the walls...
Dolan, champing at the arrival of the Equinox, has stolen the march on New England weather and the rest of the University by being the first 1947 summer seersucker jacket in the Yard. The nattiest of his four cotton Brooks Brothers models stood between his knitted tie and North Atlantic winds yesterday, as less hardy specimens still relied on tweed and corduroy...
...price. They might also feel that without this firsthand experience of Italian opera bouffe at an impressionable age, Gilbert would never have furnished his famed librettos* with some of their most striking characteristics, e.g., the plausible ruffians and harried nursemaids, the wacky plots that hinge on babies stolen and strayed, the identities lost in enigmas and found through...
...disappearance of the mascot is the second kidnapping case reported within a week, as band members are still searching for their stolen mystery pet, Six-da" reportedly abducted by a local brewery for dire purposes...
...Paris, Señora Lucienne Benitez Rexach, wife of a Puerto Rican millionaire, drowned her sorrows in champagne. From her hotel suite outside Paris, thieves had stolen $435,000 of her jewels and pocket money. But the victim, who before her recent marriage was a café singer known to Montmartre as Môme Moineau (Kid Sparrow), considers the burglars outrageously inefficient: in the same suite they overlooked another cache of jewels (value...