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Word: robber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been held up three times: for $4,090 last October; $1,750 the next month; $1,917 in January. The third time, a customer was shot in the hip when the gun went off in a nervous bank-robber's hand. Each time the robbers were captured and speedily bustled off to prison; the police recovered $2,817 of the loot, and insurance made up the rest-but the stickups made a deep impression on the bankers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Inviting Crib | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...pistol-brandishing robber held up the Seaboard Finance Co. in Tacoma, Wash., found there was only $100 in the till, muttered: "It isn't worth it," and stalked out emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...self-confessed robber refused to name a "knife-wielding" accomplice, and police announced that the 28-day-old investigation would continue. Epps will be arraigned tomorrow noon at the third district court of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Nab Thief For Observatory Crime; Seek Aide | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

Telling Garland not to move for five minutes and not to notify the police, the robber then fled down the street. The main instructor hastened to a nearby gas station and reported the incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Still Searching for Gunman Who Kidnaped College Instructor | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...those soft, goreless westerns, and it pleases neither the addict nor the casual moviegoer. What it lacks mainly is an original gimmick to replace the familiar action. Without this the movie is a formless as a jellyfish and generates about the same interest. Joel McCrea portrays a sincere bank-robber who hoists 2,000 realm of New Mexican sandstone wishing to hell he hadn't taken the dough. He falls in love with a nice-looking girl, does a few good deeds, said turns himself in before things...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: Four Faces West | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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