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Word: robin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such is the patriarchal quality of Lázaro Cárdenas' radicalism. He is no more a Marxian Socialist than was King Arthur or Robin Hood. He is a purely Mexican radical and has no particularly high opinion of Leon Trotsky to whom he has given haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

While Howard Hughes's great ship was being tuned and stocked at Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stunt | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

PRELUDE FOR WAR-Leslie Charteris-Crime Club ($2). Characteristic Charteris story in which Simon Templar, the reckless Robin Hood of crime, outwits munitions manufacturers and thwarts a fascist revolution in France-fast-moving, but with the Saint less amusing than in his earlier adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Mystery | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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