Word: rob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savage-a freedom anarchistic-free to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as needs often must) to starve...
Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke made calf's eyes in an interview. Said he: "I believe we handled the subjects in a way to rob them of all suggestiveness. . . . I am at a loss to understand the objections...
...Angell or Yale, and other college executives on the point of revolt, football fixtures similar to the Leiter Cup Series as a substitute for intercollegiate football. These would automatically restore football from its present degradation as a science to its former glory as a game. They would rob it of commercialism and heroics and give it informality, gayety and humor. They would transform it from the life work of a few to the play of the many. Minced Chickens would be an appropriate name for almost any football team Or how about Dropped Eggs? --Judge, October...
Then Nemesis tricked him. He lost his job in the City; his few shillings went. Shivering nights on the Embankment and hunger's fang stirred him to a violent design. He would get a harlot to take him home, then rob her. At this crux, his tears accomplished what his nerve funked. Marcelle kept him that winter as "her man," a pathetic sop to her vestige of womanly honor. When Marcelle was jailed for soliciting, Monsieur Ripois was most adroit. He stole her savings and decamped to Cricklewood, where it occurred to him to advertise French lessons under...
...Henry Blaney, 13, of the Lynn Manual Training School had an interview with the President and Mrs. Coolidge, and presented them with a wood carving of themselves and Rob Roy, Presidential collie. The President reciprocated by presenting Master Blaney with two dimes, three nickels and five pennies. Thereupon the President retired to his dictation and Mrs. Coolidge to the flower garden with Mrs. Stearns...