Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton walked off with the league title and shared Bermuda's Intercollegiate Cup with Dartmouth. This year the Crimson intends to take over. Club President and fall Captain Rob Albert has a fast and heavy squad and is optimistic about the team's chances. "I am confident that the club will run through an undefeated season," he said last night...
Benevolent and good-humored, Scott was a tradition-loving Tory who, says Biographer Pearson, "thought nothing of his fame as a writer compared with his place as . . . clansman of Buccleuch." He tossed off such novels as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy without revising or even rereading, dictating at times while racked by pain from gallstones and stomach cramps. He was extravagant: his "hut" at Abbotsford became a castle, where he spent immense sums buying up land, planting trees (3,000 laburnums, 3,000 Scotch elms, 100,000 birches) and entertaining noblemen, statesmen, lairds and literary lights...
Commenting on a statement in the British Medical Journal that rugby players should abandon their "scanty uniforms," Crimson rugby captain Rob Albert said he did not think any changes in the American rugby uniform were necessary...
Last summer Brooklyn police arrested four youths and accused them of tossing a man in the East River to drown, beating another man to death, torturing several others (TIME, Aug. 30). The youths had not quarreled with their victims; they did not rob them. The sheer senselessness of the crimes made nationwide headlines...
...Production costs on cartoons were rising so fast that they gobbled up the profit as it came in. Walt turned to another source of income. With funds blocked in Britain, he made four live-action features between 1950 and 1953: Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Sword and the Rose, Rob Roy. They were all amazingly good in the same way. Each struck exactly the right note of wonder and make-believe. The mood of them all was lightsome, modest. Nobody was trying to make a great picture. The settings, in the British countryside, were lovely-wide swards and sleepy...