Word: rob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Coolidge pets: Do-Funny, trained troupial, tweaker of ears; Old Bill, thrush; Peter Pan, first Coolidge dog; Paul Pry, half-brother of President Harding's famed Laddie Boy; Rob Roy, Wisconsin sheepherding collie who disliked the White House elevator, who stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President...
Successful in Afghanistan, the Mohammedan mullahs (priests) of Near Asia have spread their reactionary revoltings to neighboring Persia. Black-fezzed and bearded, they last week shouted in Persian market places that Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi is trying to Europeanize Persia, debauch her youth, rob her people. Always ready for a fight, nomadic Arabs in South Persia rose in revolt, tried to draw into the fray the dreaded Bakhtiari, fiercest of Persian tribes...
Football authorities differ as to the advisability of the now ruling. William J. Bingham 16, Director of Athletics, is among those who feel the "dead fumble" rule will rob the game of one of its biggest thrills. On the whole, however, opinion seems to favor this new evidence of the present tendency to sacrifice the spectacular in football in the interests of greater precision...
...tender eyes, should not be sacrificed for human comforts. I am sure that she does not enjoy the comforts of this Modern Age of Steel (think of all the poor mules that have been sacrificed in the mines). I know that Vivian does not wear silk because men rob the poor defenseless silkworms to secure this silk. I honestly believe that Vivian lives in a tent. The trees should be left for the birds to rest and nest in. I know she is a vegetarian. Oh! to think that people will eat animals...
...into the cold world without first having widened their perspective of it by acquaintance with languaged of other nations? Or if this angle of the subject is too remote to penetrate the recesses of your obtuse reuses, then consider but the economic aspect. Have you no hearts? Would'st rob our struggling instructors in French and German of their sole means of livelihood? Vision a typical pathetic case it your diabolical propaganda were allowed to take root, which God forbid...