Word: robins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Garden City, N. Y. / Hawk, Falcon, Robin / Commercial, sport, military / . . . . . . . .$4,000 up / Pioneers;War service; research, manufacture (motors of planes) sales, service...
...Joseph Marchette in Yonkers, N. Y., wanted a robin pie; he quickly shot a robin. The robin was taken away from him and he was given a fine...
...great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?" illustrating each verse as follows...
...this festival Wilfred Pelletier, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, had arranged the production of the first known comic opera, Le Jen de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle 700 years ago, in the century of the troubadours...
...Lovers. Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss. That is the major action of this pretty picture which once was Leather Face, novel of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, by the Baroness Orczy. It tells of a bailiff's son, purer than Galahad, bolder than Robin Hood, an unruly crusader against the Spanish governor. For peace the blonde niece of the governor married this leatherface. Set in a gentle glow of sentiment are mild bearded Spaniards spearing Flemish guards, and Flemish guards wetting Flanders fields with dark Spanish blood. And then Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss...