Word: robber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the virility and strength the White Race once showed in bursting into China, and establishing itself with special superior status in the "treaty ports." Not only does Editor Woodhead take many illustrious Chinese to task, but he relates a wealth of anecdotes. Of the humble Chinese family whose robber son was being strangled slowly by the local executioner, Imperialist Woodhead snorts...
...There's a robber in the House-or maybe in the Senate." Publisher Will Rogers Jr. gave Patricia Ziegfeld, whose late father started the late cowboy humorist to fame in the Follies, a job as cub reporter on his Beverly Hills (Calif.) Citizen. Miami Beach lifeguards spied a porpoise-like swimmer going down for the second time, hauled safely ashore Massachusetts' Senator David Ignatius Walsh, 63. Chirped a radio announcer at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington: "I also see among other distinguished guests Mr. Jesse James of the RFC." Said RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones: "I have...
While The Lords of Creation contains much material that readers of John T. Flynn (God's Gold), Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) and Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan) will find familiar, it assembles this scattered material in readable fashion but employs it to point no novel or daring conclusion...
Such acts, natural in a country where a robber caught red-handed has his hand hacked off immediately, the Emperor did not seek to justify last week. He merely announced that he could not "conscientiously" promise that his savages would behave otherwise. All of a twitter, the International Red Cross Committee in Geneva said that this would be the first war since the Red Cross was founded 71 years ago in which the combatants did not at least promise to be on their best behavior...
William Mahan, 32, known as a dangerous bank robber, had been paroled after a conviction in 1924, later escaped after serving seven years of a 20-year prison sentence in Boise, Idaho...