Word: robber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precious cargo along China's bandit-infested roads meant constant danger. At night, the Friends slept near their cabs. Religious scruples forbid them to carry guns or to travel with armed guards. One Friend's arm was so badly slashed when he tried to ward off a robber's sword that the nerves were severed...
...picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Laid in Edinburgh in the 18305, it involves the tragic traffic of a young medical student (Russell Wade) and his brilliant teacher (Henry Daniell) with a grave robber who does not hesitate to murder when a cadaver is urgently needed for dissection...
...correspondent asked a seven-year-old girl in Aachen what she thought of Adolf Hitler. Remembering her candy ration at school, she said: "He's a nice man who gives me chocolates." Her brother, 12, piped that Britain was a robber who ought to be punished, the U.S. a country run by "Jewish plutocrats...
...years Robber John Giles (37, 5 ft. 11, 160 lbs., dark complexion, brown hair, tough-looking) and Robber Edgar Cook (31, 5 ft. 4, 154 lbs., light complexion, hazel eyes, talks incessantly) were just dull names on Midwest police circulars. But in the tarnished democracy of crime a man can always emerge from mediocrity by that feat of supermechanics, a successful prison break...
...Parkington (M.G.M.) is the fourth lesson in the Garson-Pidgeon series on true love and enduring marriage (Blossoms in the Dust, Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie). It discharges an obligation to the Louis Bromfield original by drawing a fine distinction between the robber barons of the '90s, who robbed each other, and the Wall Street wolves of the '30s, who robbed widows and orphans. Another distinction that may strike audiences as more valid is that the barons (most of them) ended up in mansions on Fifth Avenue and the wolves (some of them) in Sing Sing cells...