Word: robber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year ago, when the U.S. Government began its clumsy effort to rearm, one prominent New Dealer confessed: "I wish we hadn't knocked off all the robber barons. The country sure needs...
...Evansville, Ind., a grocer and a robber pointed loaded revolvers at each other, pulled and pulled the triggers, clicked and clicked, finally gave...
Honest, fearless, tough and shrewd -and loyal to his boss - Harold Ickes long ago earned his post as dog robber to the New Deal. But he expanded this job, as he does all the jobs he can lay his hands on. For eight and a half years he has been performing a long list of necessary tasks...
...story ballroom and immense dining rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...
...long. Army men recalled a law that forbade the transfer of National Guardsmen from one State to another. Private Earl was put under technical arrest. He stayed on at Fort Dix for five months without pay, picked up small change from kindly officers who hired him as their dog robber...