Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert Cochran ("Handsome Bob") Hilliard, 70, onetime (1886-1918) "matinee idol"; of heart disease and diabetes; in Manhattan. Tall, well-built, handsome, with regular features and a luxuriant mustache, he was always immaculately dressed, thrilled many a heart. He played with Lillie Langtry in 1887; toured for several years in A Fool There Was, his greatest success...
...host himself called, M. Daudet was adamant; once and for all time, he did not intend to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's invitation. M. Le Prefect hinteu vaguely at arrest, bowed and retired. Now French policemen don't often speak of such things. M. Daudet was warned, and placed bob wire about his building, bolted doors and windows, and waited, first hinting to his friends and the police that he would die before he stooped to the Prefect's compulsory hospitality...
...Dortmund, Germany, Friedrich Sheller coldly eyed his 14-year-old Gertrude's new hair bob, led her to a barber, seized clippers, adjusted them to half a millimetre, grunted, "Let's do it thoroughly," sheared her poll...
...afternoon the Lampoon baseball team displayed a clever brand of diamond strategy--exceptionaly clever, in fact, for seldom in its baseball history has the Mt. Auburn establishment of humorous note produced a nine which could so long hold in check the slugging forces of the CRIMSON. For eight innings Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, ruled supreme from the eminence of the mound which has witnessed so many of his former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths of the Soldiers Field...
...Bob Lampoon, intrepid and impotent burbler of the invading nine, was seen during the greater part of yesterday afternoon twining himself into grotesque and inhuman knots on the front steps of the Lampoon building, accompanied by the faint cheers of the teeming masses indoors who were gradually preparing themselves for the fray...