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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Jews return to Palestine and rob each other reciprocally. No National Socialist attacks a Jew because the Nazi knows the Jew is inferior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prayers & Atrocities | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...nature of the crime and the personalities involved, it was an attempt which, if successful, might well have proved a national tragedy. The activities of Franklin Roosevelt since November eighth have inspired a growing confidence in his abilities, even among the die-hard members of his political opponents. To rob the victorious party of its leadership, and to place command in the hands of a less able, less respected lieutenant would unquestionably have shattered any hopes which the past election had aroused for intelligent government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIAMI | 2/16/1933 | See Source »

Married. Lily Busch Magnus, great-granddaughter of the late St. Louis Brewer Adolphus Busch; and Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; in St. Louis. Three days before the wedding, gunmen captured the country house of George S. Tiffany, knocked him out, planned to rob his guests at a luncheon for the bride & groom, until foiled by a steward from the swank Bridlespur Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 13, 1933 | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

Paramount invariably gives Director Lubitsch expert casts and this time he had Herbert Marshall for the role of a romantic crook, Miriam Hopkins for the crook's accomplice and inamorata, and Kay Francis for the patrician lady they set out to rob. Miss Francis obligingly makes Herbert Marshall her secretary and then falls in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...monument in Manhattan's Columbus Circle, waiting for the Columbus Day ceremonies to begin. Just as someone was about to start the speechmaking, shots rang out a few blocks away. Reporters and cameramen raced toward the sound. They found a badly wounded holdupman who had tried to rob a store; an hysterical girl who had helped him; a dozen policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Love, Drama, Crime . . . | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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