Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Over No. 15 Dupont Circle, late one afternoon last week, the Presidential flag dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that...
...From the White House came news that the President's physicians had prescribed ham and eggs for breakfast instead of New England sausages. Sausages are fattening. Two days later, Senator Watson of Indiana told his friend how, at a White House breakfast, Rob Roy, Presidential white collie, had stolen half a sausage from his plate...
...intended by the author, greeted this confection; Playwright Edwin Self is advertising manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...
...Klux Klan for a fat commission on each member pledged. The first feature of the meeting was Organizer Clarke's announcement that the Kingdom would hold a convention at St. Louis in March, "to wage an aggressive warfare against every doctrine and every theory which seeks to rob God of His Supreme Majesty as Creator and reflects upon man as His highest creation." In a word, to write an anti-Evolution statute into the nation's law books. Dr. Straton was then brought forth to inflame the gathering's righteous zeal with some of his astonishing pulpit oratory...
...Straton should be made to understand that the guiding light of the American Mercury is not good-hearted and that he makes his living by being anything but good-hearted Rob him of his cynicism, his black arts, and one robs him of his daily bread. Were he of a Pollyannie nature his writings would not be accepted as holy scripture by numerous intellectuals, both young and old, scattered over the countryside. When one wants sweetness and light there are other sources; but advocates of the devil who can amuse and corrupt as well as Mr. Mencken...