Word: robber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire military scheme of things, as far as the enlisted man is concerned is far from perfect, but who are there that will protest in behalf of the "Dog Robber?" He has no vote or is he other than future cannon fodder - the officers, well, that's the great argument...
...Williamsburg Savings Bank is the tallest building in Brooklyn, N. Y. Its deposits total $225,000,000. Passers-by were puzzled, last week, to see, high on the outer wall, a sculptured grotesque of a peterman (professional argot for bank- robber) with his dark lantern. Why should a bank thus honor its immemorial enemy? Further along was the moral answer, an other image of the peterman - behind the bars
Each became last week the theatre of a miniature civil war. Troops loyal to President Chiang battled with disaffected soldiery left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi...
...Hackensack, N. J., a robber entered the home of one Alexander A. Altschuler, stole 14 suits of clothes and prepared to leave. In leaving, he woke Mrs. Alexander A. Altschuler who said sleepily, "Where are you going?" "Downstairs, my dear," said the robber softly. Supposing the robber to be Alexander A. Altschuler, Mrs. Altschuler went to sleep; the robber went downstairs and far away...
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey is the "Moroccan Marshal." He was born in France but his spurs and his glory were won on the other side of the Mediterranean, in French Morocco, As High Commissioner and Resident General almost continuously from 1912 to 1925, he pacified a robber rabble, waged reforms as well as war, organized a stable government, and laid the sure foundations of a great colonial and commercial future...