Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racketeer, first introduced into U. S. fiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance...
...Philadelphia the Orchestra begins its Robin Hood Dell concerts, with operas two nights a week under Alexander Smallens, who will commute between that city and New York...
...includes an all-star cast of non-entities. An adamant, self-centered grandfather, his estranged daughter and her son, and a harmless professor are all brought together at the end to form one big, happy family. There is an excellent short of hunting coyotes by airplane. A whimateal cartoon, "Robin Hood" and a Thelma Todd comedy complete a bill that will well repay a few hours snatched from the last-minute cram...
...York, May 24 Ellsworth vines of Pasadena, cal., and Bill Tilden of Philadelphia, today defeated the two French aces, Henri Cochet and Martin Plaa, in opening play of the final round robin in the Eastern Professional Tennis Championships...
With your "Robin Hood" policeman-killer glorifying article [TIME, May 7.1, the editor or editors of TIME may go to Hell with my compliments. There is no post office in Hell and 1 shall be pleased not to hear from...