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Standing Offer. In Chicago, Orthopedic Appliances Salesman W. H. Swinburn reported the theft of two artificial legs from his automobile, offered, if the thief really needed the legs, to fit them free of charge...
...meanest thing the Germans did in Holland is known at Maastricht as 'the rape of the ants.' . . . Even quisling Hollanders resented the theft of the greatest collection of ants in the world...
...Ontario mining-commission report last week revealed a staggering yearly theft, highlighted a persistent racket that has become almost a tradition. Said the commission: a million dollars worth of gold is stolen every year from Ontario's mines by high-graders...
...Madeline and Eileen came late to school, saw some report cards unguarded in an office. They stole the cards to learn their marks. Margaret Patton saw the theft, reported it, and was overheard by Madeline and Eileen. Said Madeline: ''Let's kill somebody so we'll be sent away to a home; my parents don't treat me right...
Retreat. Frossia found a job. She typed documents about transgressors of the new economic decrees: speculators in food, currency, timber, building material, raw chemicals, leather, steel, the theft of a sockful of rough amethysts in the Urals, the theft of 500 Ib. of raw glycerine. Her superiors lectured her: "The Party aims have been well defined by Comrade Bukharin. . . ." But she could not understand them. "Imperial or Soviet, she thought, we Russians will never change." Anna von Packen said, "Working for them? How can you? . . . You will not stand aloof from them. Therefore you are helping their ghastly revolution...