Word: swag
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...another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the window of a skyscraper hotel room, trying to make her tell what happened to the $1,000,000 swag from a mail robbery...
...Serge Reggiani), a ferret-faced hood who bumps off a fence to get the loot from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback to tie all the subplots together in time for a grisly finale...
...while Capannelle keeps an eye peeled for the polizia, another member of the gang steals a parked car, drives exactly eleven inches, feels a mighty thump, realizes red-faced that one rear wheel is gone-the car was standing on a jack. In the end, Capannelle & Co. cop the swag, a matter of 80 million lire ($130,000), but only by dumb luck. They stow it in a suitcase and the suitcase in a baggage room. The check-"Hey!" hollers Gassman. "What did I do with the baggage check?" He put it in his pants pocket, that's what...
...fashion's Hall of Fame as a Best-Dressed pacesetter "above annual comparison," Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of the board chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System, lost some of her most dazzling finery when a cat burglar raided the Paley estate in suburban Manhasset, L.I. Included in the swag were a 12-carat emerald and diamond ring valued at $77,000, a $50,000 diamond necklace containing 78 stones, other baubles and bangles, for a total haul of $193,200. "There was," said a CBS spokesman, "other jewelry in the house that he didn...
...four other gang members, whose illicit inventory included 400 Ibs. of precious aniline dyes, 220 yards of satin, $200 in British pounds, and hundreds of thousands of rubles in state loan certificates, rubies, coins and medals. A crook named "Blue Eyes" was all set to haul the swag out by car to Afghanistan. The gang had hoped to use the profits to finance a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, they all landed in a Tashkent jail, sentenced to terms of 10 to 15 years...