Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement in a recent number of TIME. According to the editor breeding places of all but four of our North American birds were known. I naturally asked about Ross's goose which had been left out of this list. Here is a letter from my old friend Captain Bob Bartlett clinching my point that the breeding place of this beautiful and abundant species of goose is still being guessed...
...Helen's Babies nothing remains save the dim figure of a kind uncle, and a phrase, "Wants shee wheels go wound." Hector My Dog, Bob Son of Battle, Stviss Family Robinson; even The Jungle Books, the Henty Books, Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger, and Little Lord Fauntieroy's lace collar and filial perfection* where are they? Gone, all gone, yet once the child that knew them not was plainly a barbarian...
...Bob Paine-Robert Findlay Paine-is going back again for a brief period to edit the Cleveland Press, and his returning is of sentimental importance to this daily of largest local circulation,*-the first of the chain newspapers that the late Edward Wyllis Scripps (TIME, March 22) founded. Earle E. Martin sat at the Press editorial desk from 1905 until he became publisher of the Cleveland Times last summer (TIME, June 14). Ted O. Thackrey is editor now. But Bob Paine has been the editor emeritus of the Press from the day he left 24 years...
Last week Editor Thackrey published in the Press a two-column story-half art work, half text- about Bob Paine and his return. It was an excellent piece of newspaper writing-brief, specific. It quoted Bob Paine's autobiographic "obit," the "morgue" story to be printed at his death: "Bob Paine has passed on-he was damned well entitled to it." It recounted the enthusiastic, hard work he is still able to perform at 70 (he was born in 1856). Most of all it emphasized an injunction Mr. Scripps had once given him: "I want you to clean...
...Bob Lampoon was grilled in Arthur's restaurant yesterday. The veteran flunkey of the Lampoon building was raked over the coals by Cambridge sleuths and cleared of all changes following an unauthorized smoker held early yesterday morning in Arthur's Smoke Shop, which resulted in the theft of accessories necessary to the worship of Lady Nicotine...