Word: robber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communists raised a tumult, called the Chancellor a "tax robber" amid wild cheers, boos, growls. Under threat of police intervention they cooled. Quiet was restored...
...stock among his employes. He told them: "If I took this $600,000 and personally appropriated it, I would be the archfiend of the ages. If I snatched this money that you have helped to earn away from you, my conscience would condemn me for being the greatest robber that ever walked on God's footstool...
...Nottingham, England (onetime abode of Robber Robin Hood), three race-track bookies, with bags, brass nameplates, betting tablets, visited a golf course, took up a stand at the starter's tent, made an offer: "Five to one on the field." They were ousted...
...year's production is laid in the North West country and its action deals with the fortunes and misfortunes of one Pierre of the Woods, the leading character, who is a free trader struggling against the competition of the Hudson Bay Company. Pierre is alsely accused of being a robber by an unscrupulous but clever gambler known as the Count. These accusations are responsible for the appearance of a silent character attired in a scarlet coat, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Upon this silent spectator hinges the action of the plot, for by his appearance upon...
...Davis hammered on the corruption issue, calling for a change of administration, denouncing the "robber" tariff, of the Republicans. In regard to Senator LaFollette, he took the tack opposite to the Coolidge group, and belittled the third ticket. He aimed at President Coolidge; and President Coolidge sat as immobile as a sphinx, repeating with the persistency of Poe's raven: "Economy and more economy...