Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later when Senator Harrison flaunted his round robin in the Senate and the Sales Tax had been knocked groggy, the President took a hand. He called the Democratic members of the Finance Committee to a night conference in the White House. After they had left he heard disturbing news about raids on the dollar abroad, was unable to sleep. At 5:30 a.m. he arose, took pencil & paper, wrote diligently for three hours. At 10:30 a.m. he told the Cabinet he would address the Senate at noon, an impromptu procedure such as none at the White House could...
...Malcolm, Robin McCoy, R. M. Mitchell, G. N. Monro, G. E. Moredock, E. D. Noyes, E. C. Olsen, E. F. Page, J. G. Patterson, Marris Pfaelzer, I. M. Pinansky, F. P. Pond, E. H. Pringle, Grovenor Proctor, R. J. Purcell, I. W. Rabinowitz, Leonard Raum, L. L. Reeve, Horace Robinson, W. P. Rockwell...
...Dorothy Locke, 20, of Brooklyn, who started fencing four years ago to improve her health: the U. S. women's fencing championship. In the final round-robin, in Manhattan, she beat Marion Lloyd, champion in 1928 and 1931, 5-to-4, won all four of her other matches...
...Point Sur" all tell incestuous tales. "Roan Stallion" tells of a woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile. To him, there is nothing in his writings either "surprising or subversive, but the mere common sense of our predicament as passionate bits of earth and water." To dignify...
...Robin and Marion, and Pathelin," Professor Webster, Sever...