Word: robber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes puts in 20 hours a day on his job, Presbrey has few friends among his more relaxed colleagues. Their grudging admiration is mixed with wonder at the chances he takes. In 1934, prowling in St. Paul, he stepped right into a gun fight between policemen and two robbers who were holding up a milk company. A policeman's bullet went through the shoulder padding of Presbrey's coat, wounded a robber...
...Robber Baron...
Petty Cash. In Seattle, when Mrs. Enar Glad pointed out to an armed robber that there was only $5 in the office and therefore "it's hardly worth your time," he agreed and left her office...
Colorado Territory (Warner) sets long-legged Joel McCrea to work on an old plot in a handsome new location. This time McCrea is an outlawed train robber with a price on his head and the hope in his heart of becoming a simple rancher. Like many a sagebrush Robin Hood, McCrea is bad only because he is good. He stakes a couple of settlers (Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang...
Robin Hoodwinked. In Chicago, confronted by an armed robber, Mrs. Josephine Halper burst into tears and wailed: "I need bread and he asks me for money!", wheedled a dollar from the outlaw and gave it to her son who promptly lost it in a bingo game...