Word: robber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barred from most rodeos as too dangerous. In this race, riders mounted on wild bulls, cows and broncs (some saddled, some bareback) are let loose simultaneously, bucking and bumping into one another in their crazy dash to the finish line. Winner last week was Ernest Myers, a Beaumont robber...
...Wyck Brooks' second volume on New England culture is: 1. The Tragic Era. 2. The Robber Barons. 3. The Last Stronghold. 4. Its Towers Gone to Seed. 5. New England : Indian Summer...
Died. Roy Gardner, 56, onetime notorious train robber, since his release from Leavenworth in 1938 a film salesman, crime lecturer, author (Hellcatraz), exposition barker; by his own hand (poison gas of his own mixing); in San Francisco...
...acre estate in Germany, at Chossewitz. There, though Tenor Melchior does not sing in Germany any more, he spends his summers. On an island in the middle of a lake, near the former Polish border, he inhabits what was originally the fortress of a medieval robber baron. All summer long, Lauritz Melchior invites his soul in this rustic barony. He likes to dress in Lederhosen, hunt his own land for rabbit, red deer or pheasant. On these expeditions he always carries his little brass hunting horn, blows a blast on it like Siegfried himself...
Umpteenth in a series of screwball comedies, "The Amazing Mr. Williams" provides an amusing respite from Widener. Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas both turn out humorous performances in Columbia's imitation of the "Thin Man" series. Super-sleuth Douglas in the course of the picture apprehends a bank robber, decoys a skull-crusher, and takes a "desperate criminal,"--middle-aged and bald--on a double date to the beach with Miss Blondell. One of the more slap-stick incidents occurs when the amazing Mr. Williams attempts to disguise himself by donning women's clothes; it is a backneyed device...