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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail where she was being held for the murder of a man (presumably Will Hebner) whose skeleton neighbors discovered in her cellar (TIME, April 18). She left a note saying: "I did not kill Will Hebner. He brought me the poison with which I killed myself. . . . I'll rob you of any further fun and cheat the natives out of a Roman holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...closed the evening with a clog dance, all for four shillings, eleven pence. But his greatest acclaim has been from the music halls where his variety turns have topped bills all over the English-speaking world. Already a notable success in cinema, he will later this year make Rob Roy for Gaumont British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...wholesale sterilization of maniac depressives might in the long run, he said, do more harm than good, for such a move would undoubtedly rob the world of many artistic geniuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sterilization Recommended By Dr. Myerson in Lecture | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...lady carried in her deep-springed victoria an asthmatic, wrinkly pug; when the automobile was young, a goggling bulldog sat by the goggled driver; the mannish post-War girl and her fox terrier trotted side by side. Calvin Coolidge's white collie Rob Roy, Katharine Cornell's flop-eared cocker Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street started fashions. But from year to year the $75.000,000-per-year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 1 of 3,093 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Alexander Northrop disappointed expectations in the half mile. He gained sixth place and his time of 2:08 is the poorest he has done for a long time. Rob Haydock suffered even worse luck in the high jump. Though the Harvard record holder of over 6 ft. 3 in., Haydock barely cleared 6 ft. Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND SPORT RESULTS | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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