Word: robs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only an occasional train, are careful not to kill the rail goose which lays so many golden eggs...
...beneficent effect of penal institutions on their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent to a jail for a crime that she committed long before. Cinema stories by Anita Loos...
...Manhattan last week ran wild-eyed alarm. Big bankers stared at one another in anger and astonishment. A bill just passed by both houses of Congress would rivet upon their institutions what they considered a monstrous system of guaranteeing bank deposits. Such a system, they felt, would not only rob them of their pride of profession but would reduce all U. S. banking to its lowest level. They saw their deposits which they had spent a lifetime to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown...
...esteems. Only by taking some of the wind from the Red sails can the present economic structure be patched up sufficiently to weather this storm and the ones to follow. A refusal to listen to "Socialistic Ideas," and an active suppression of Communist agents and sympathizers may rob capitalism of the lingering delight...
...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...