Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City last week the cock robin which has been attacking its own reflection in a window pane was still at it (TIME, March 27). Its mate was supplying it regularly with fat worms, big bugs. Once it fell upon a blue jay which appeared in the yard, drove it away. Apparently wearied by this diversion the cock robin retreated for a few hours to a telephone wire. As the 17th day passed its attacks grew less & less vicious...
...Cock Robin...
...Kansas City last week a cock robin, undeterred by shouts and lowerings of the shade, was slowly weakening as it passed its tenth day of attacking its own reflection in a windowpane...
...branded him only last year as a desperado who must be exterminated. Lurking in the hills and jungles of northern Nicaragua, he and his 500 guerrillas slew 135 U. S. officers & men before President Hoover withdrew the Marines (TIME, Jan. 9). Last week Nicaragua's arch-desperado and Robin Hood, tough little General Augusto Cesar Sandino, flew down from his mystery base in the north to Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and was smartly saluted by 50 native National Guardsmen (trained by U. S. Marines...
...Last week Arkansas' Senator Robinson lunched Sir Ronald at the Capitol, took him on the Senate floor. Later Indiana's crude Robin- son flayed the Ambassador as a "lobbyist" for debt cancelation. Arkansas' Robinson promptly admitted that he had made a "mistake" in taking Sir Ronald on the floor, explained: "It was an unintentional disregard of the Senate rules. T did not refresh myself on them. The subject of international debts was not mentioned, much less discussed...