Word: rob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college, is one more step along the road that many American colleges seem to be travelling. It has been many years now since the constant; grinding strain of extra-curricular activities first began to be commented upon to the disparagement of the colleges which allowed them to rob their students of every moment of their academic leisure. It has been at least as many years since the whole round of these activities was imported entire, and in some cases in an intensified form, into preparatory schools. Now, in the colleges at least, the tide has definitely turned. Extra-curricular activities...
Losing pitcher Rob Lampoon. Umpire Joe Dubie...
...White House Spokesman's conference with newspapermen was suddenly interrupted when his white collie, Rob Roy, barked loudly, rushed to the Spokesman's side. "What's the matter?" said the Spokesman. "Are they stepping on your toes...
...Grover and Pen", with illustrations; "The Surprise", a small newspaper and the only copy known; "The Moral Emblems" with the advertisements for its sale; "Not I, and Other Poems"; "A Martial Elegy or Some Lead Soldiers"; "The Black Canyon"; "The Marguerite, Lawks what a Beautiful Flower"; and "Rob and Ben, or The Pirate and the Apothecary...
...addition, however, the director included a pretty romance. The only person in the hills who can read is Rob Warwick (Forrest James). He alone knows that in the outer world beyond the mountains, women are protected and respected, that a woman was once invited by a man to tread upon his cloak in order to avoid soiling her shoes. Such regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father...