Word: robbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lecturing in Brooklyn's Institute of Arts & Sciences, Wallace Havelock Robb, poet and ornithologist of Ontario, who likes to call himself "the St. Francis of Canada, the poet of birdland," showed stereopticon pictures of his conquests over birds. Of a mother plover with her brood of four sitting on his hand, he said: "There is perfect faith there. Don't ask me how I do it. I don't know, and I can't explain. In my sanctuary all the birds . . . know me now, but that plover didn't know me. She just trusted...
Wearing a purple-piped shirt open to the waist. St. Francis Robb said, "I'm a revolter. When you have a shirt cut as low as that, you have to have something in back of it, so I wear a white vest under it. Then I put a . . . purple silk sash about my waist. The women all fall in love with it at once and it is the envy...
Other London papers made front page news of the U. S. lynchings, discreetly played down last week's developments in England's current crime stories-the kidnapping and murder at Leicester of 3-year-old Derek Robb, an attempt to kidnap a 7-year-old schoolboy at Northampton...
...Henry Chauncey, Philip Dalton, Joseph Davis, Samuel Drury, G. F. Ducey, A. C. Hanford, Dana Hardwick, A. E. Hindmarsh, DeLancey Jay, Shaun Kelly, Henry Keyes, William Lane, Delmar Leighton, Charles Locke, Matthew Luce, George McFadden, S. G. Mortimer, F. R. Moseley, Potter Palmer, John Pratt, J. O. Proctor Hampden Robb, Chandler Robbins, J. D. Sawyer, S. D. Warren, Lawrence Waterbury, P. B. Weld, Barrett Wendell, and S. H. Wolcott...
Conceived as a "Cathedral of the Air" by the Rev. Gill Robb Wilson of Trenton, N. J., onetime National Chaplain of the American Legion, the chapel's solemn purpose is to memorialize the U. S. military dead, particularly those of the aviation service. Under the auspices of the New Jersey American Legion, famed Philadelphia Architect Paul Phillipe Cret has prepared plans for a sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval...