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Word: robin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What this country needs is a counter-falter and murderer, a perfect criminal, secret, unscrupulous, ruthless, yet with high moral purpose. Given this un-catchable, unknown Robin Hood, America's problems of recovery, reform, and revolution would be solved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLAN TO END PLANS | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

...being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls and there is a delightful scene in a Hamburg stand with a proprietor who defends with incredible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

...hockey teams is ahead of last year's. By last week, the major-league hockey season was sufficiently advanced for experts to make their prophecies on how it will end next month, when the three leading teams in the two divisions-of the League play a complicated round-robin tournament for the world's championship Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey: Mid-Season | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...yard backstroke--Harvard: Siekard T. Fisher, Jr. '36, Robin W. Mean '35; Alumni; Edward E. Stowell '34, Edward G. Relvenston '33, Henry V. Atherton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMING TEAM FACES ALUMNI THIS EVENING | 12/15/1934 | See Source »

Newshawk Ager met Miss Corio, who in private life is the respected wife of Producer Emmett Callahan, in the wings after her act, followed her to her dressing room, watched her put on dark stockings, white net panties, a peach satin garter belt embroidered ANNE, a robin's egg blue chemise, a pink silk slip, a long-sleeved, high-necked black dress, a black hat and long kid gloves. "Thus," wrote Reporter Ager, "does a strip artist in her private life get even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: No. 1 Stripper | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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