Significant Items Stolen By Dortmunder
- The Balabomo Emerald (The Hot Rock)
- The Capitalists' & Immigrants' Trust Bank (Bank Shot)
- The Byzantine Fire (a ruby) (Why Me?)
- The Femur of St. Ferghana (Don't Ask)
- The bodies of two 70-years-dead Indians (Bad News)
- A gold chess set originally intended as a gift for Czar Nicholas II (What's So Funny?)
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Famous quotes containing the words significant, items and/or stolen:
“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“A favorite of outdoor alcoholics, connoisseurs and Fundamentalists, these pills turn water into wine. In 10 minutes the most fetid swamp scum in the forest can become modest red, elusive and light on first taste, yet playful—one might say a trifle impudent—on the afterbite. Saves pack space by eliminating need for bulky corkscrew, decanter and bottles. Store pills on their sides in a cool dark place.”
—Alfred Gingold, U.S. humorist. Items From Our Catalogue, “Wine Pills,” Avon Books (1982)
“They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)