Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock. In his lawless career, the only man for whose death he was responsible was a deputy who fell in the general mêlée when Bass received his mortal wound...
...Hempstead, N. Y., Burglar Emil Gross heard a noise, leaped into a bed, yanked the covers over his head, was caught by police snoring ostentatiously between Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Dayton, whom he had intended to rob...
...Rob Godfrey quit the Art Students' League before the end of his second month. He did not want to be a little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little...
...Rob Godfrey went to see it in March, thought it was the least impressive painting in the show. He was vastly surprised and delighted when the Montclair (N. J.) Art Gallery asked to borrow it. A little later the Montclair people wrote to say that his picture had disappeared from the show. Last week the news came out. Of the Academy's 278 paintings, many of them by famed artists, 25-year-old Rob Godfrey's portrait of Anneliese had been the only one picked for purchase by the great Metropolitan Museum...
Criticized for their penchant for spending vast sums on time-tested Titians and Rembrandts while ignoring living artists, the august Metropolitan's directors have lately begun to take a few chances on moderns. But they do not take very big chances, and last week dazed Rob Godfrey refused to reveal the "very modest sum" the Metropolitan had paid for his portrait. "It might." said sensible Anneliese Godfrey, "cause clients to want to have their portraits done for the same price, or cheaper...