Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slight Case of Murder (Warner Bros.) is the riotous cinemaversion of the Damon Runyon-Howard Lindsay play about four uninvited, neatly plugged corpses in the Saratoga mansion of a Broadway beer baron (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
Tracing the development of Japanese prints from the Primitives to Hiroshige, an exhibition of modern reproductions went on display yesterday in Robinson Hall, where it will remain for the rest of the week...
...President Lowell, John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, S. Hubbard Mansfield, Edward C. Moore '02, Parkman Professor of Theology, Emeritus, James B. Munn '12, professor of English, John T. Murray '99, professor of English, Professor George Nettleton of Yale, Bliss Perry, Fred N. Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Hyder E. Rollins, professor of English, Paul J. Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts; Dr. Richard M. Smith, Charles Stetson, Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology, Frederick G. White '97, and Henry A. Yeomans '00, professor of Government...
Thunder & Lightning. Henry Robinson Luce and Briton Hadden were great & good friends who had been to Hotchkiss School and Yale together, had been editors of their undergraduate papers, had been cub newspapermen. While reporters on the late Frank Munsey's Baltimore News, they conceived the newsmagazine idea and set out to found TIME...
...essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted the next by the unholy delight of feeding Pain-killer to Peter, the cat. The painful croppers of his acrobatic courtship of Becky Thatcher, the sharp thimble thumps of exasperated Aunt Polly, the ecstasy and heartache of runaway buccaneering and the bursting satisfaction of eavesdropping...