Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same ship and left in a tantrum when his discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later he went abroad again, acquired a French aviation pilot's license, returned to train at Roosevelt Field. In 1933 Rob ert Gordon Switz married a quiet intelligent Vassar girl named Marjorie Tilley. Soon they went abroad again. Aviator Switz representing a U. S. aviation instrument company. Said J. N. A. Van Ven Bonwhuizsen, president of the MacNeil Instrument Co. : "Mr. Switz was our representative in Europe, but he never made any sales." In Europe...
...melted down into the lead of crime and corruption, most U. S. citizens felt that the decade had left them at least one clean heritage in which they could take national pride. Bankers might be crooks, industrialists might be common gamblers and gangsters might rule politics but nothing could rob commercial aviation of its honest achievements. In that decade the country learned to fly. Laid were the foundations of an air transport system that became the envy of every foreigner. Even Depression could not wilt this fine new flower of U. S. ingenuity and enterprise...
...really regrettable feature of the whole affair is that the men involved can be punished only by annulling their contracts and thereby causing them financial loss. It does not speak well for our society that a man can rob the government of millions of dollars and get away scot-free, when others are sentenced to long terms for offenses which are slight by comparison. Still worse than this is the fact that those who have committed the worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant...
...circumnavigating the globe but for the doubtful pleasure of doing it in each other's company. World cruises are obviously an improvement on the grand tours of yesteryear, for they cover more ground, take less time and trouble. Though not even the tenderest management can hope to rob sightseeing of its exhausting labors, sightseeing is only incidental, a kaleidoscopic background for bridge and cocktail parties. Such is the impression given by Authoress Parrish's Sea Level, a slyly malicious novel of a world cruise. Of the same category as Grand Hotel, Sea Level uses a large cast, plays...
From various remarks dropped by the actors, and also by the escort of the deaf lady in the next box, we gathered that the theme of the play was nothing less than the attempt of a god on shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud...