Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest of all plots: flight and pursuit. They have arranged this show from episodes taken from the life of Billy the Kid, famed oldtime western Robin Hood. The sheriff who idolizes the man he is chasing, the pure and lovely young girl who sticks to Billy through his dangers, the villains who are nasty simply because it is their nature to be so, are all properly represented. Their activities are photographed on a big screen which...
...accordance with its policy of expansion the Harvard Flying Club announced last night that it has placed an order for a Curtiss Robin, a cabin monoplane powered by a 170 horsepower Curtiss Wright motor, and that the ship will be flown on from St. Louis next week by two club pilots. The plane is to be used primarily for cross-country flying. To supplement this ship the Club will also operate a Gypsy Moth for the purpose of training those members who have not as yet received their private licenses...
...Security is Impossible!" Attacking directly M. Briand's "United States of Europe," a scheme predicated on a round-robin guarantee of Security, Mr. Henderson cried...
...result: "Bob Hunter, or The Boss of the Rum Runners." Because, like Merriwell, Bob Hunter must be of eminently sterling worth, he will be enmeshed in illegal activities against his will, his conscience and his judgment. Many of the episodes will deal with the persistent efforts of this Robin Hood to go straight. Crime must...
Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood...