Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called on the President to offer him its honorary Chairmanship. Said he: The boy is the father of the man. Remember that when you grow up you will be about the same kind of man as you were a boy. You don't need to rob yourself of boyhood, but you can take your pleasure in a manly way. I have two boys of my own. I tell them there are only two things necessary for boys-work hard and behave themselves. Do that and there won't be any doubt about the future of this country...
...that Memorial Hall will never be able to compete successfully with the other restaurants of Cambridge. It's own self and human nature are both against it. In the first place it will never gain, except perhaps for brief periods, the patronage of members of clubs. Nor will it rob the Union of the latter's clientelle, for the Union has much of the atmosphere and congeniality of a club. The percentage of each class which falls into these two categories is, however, fairly small. If the remainder of the undergraduates who live at college ate at Memorial Hall...
...Birth, he says: "It is not necessary to consider . . attempts to find a scientific explanation of the Virgin Birth-pan-thenogenesisby putting the mother of Jesus in a class with frogs and bees that, we are told, sometimes reproduce without union of the sexes." Accusing modernists of trying to rob Jesus of "the glory of a Virgin Birth," Mr. Bryan comes to his climax with the question: "Who is the better authority in spiritual matters-Dr. Luke (writer of the Gospel) or Dr. Fosdick...
...Chancellor, in his inaugural speech to the Reichstag, said: "My fight is directed neither against the Right nor the Left, but against all those who by force and cunning seek to rob the German people of all that is left to us?unity of the nation." (Bravo's from all except the Com- munists.) . . . "The whole nation must at last be filled with the realization that unless the people and the Reich are to sink into a hopeless maelstrom of annihilation the hour for the utmost sacrifices now has come. We must realize that the question...
...throws their way. But if they were less short sighted and would open their hearts to Mucha's benign example, tax collectors might be more leniently disposed and the public might cast a bland smile upon them. For everyone loves a cheerful public spirited giver, even though he rob Peter to pay Paul