Word: robber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play deals with "some intimate and hitherto unchronicled chapters in the early life of Saint Mara of Trabia," a Croatian woman whose name appears on no church calendar. As the saint. Actress Menken is compelled to choose between a life with a robber called Kristan the Wolf or with a secular gentleman named Josef. The secular gentleman wins out, and toward the close of the play one sees Saint Mara working miracles upon "a man with a twisted foot," "a man with a curved spine" and "a boy with devils"-the latter being Ethel Barrymore's boy John Drew...
...concerned," said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia, signing the request for Burns's extradition for two Troup County officers to take North, "he will have to take his medicine like any other highway robber...
...Brunswick, N. J., while twelve salesmen of Colonial Life Insurance Co. were holding a "pep meeting," a robber entered an adjoining room, stole about...
Died. Anton Kozarek, hangman to the Kingdom of Hungary; of influenza developed from a cold caught while executing a robber and a murderer; in Budapest...
Captured three days later was 64-year-old Convict Earl Thayer, mail robber. He had escaped alone during the confusion...