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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay) : ''How can any man know if he is the father?" This is the germ of the scientist's obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revivals | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Blair Corp., and his brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...efforts to help the farmer. When fortnight ago Vice President Curtis and Senator Watson begged the Board to hold its 200.000,000 bu. off the market long enough for prices to rise, Board officials obliquely declared that such requests were inspired by avaricious wheat traders plotting to rob the farmer. Few persons appeared to heed these vague accusations. But last week the Farm Board took them to the White House, got President Hoover to broadcast them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover on Shorts | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...write about human beings from any non-human viewpoint is to rob human affairs rather terribly of their importance and security. Important and terrible enough from mankind's viewpoint, the overturning of the social order in Russia becomes truly horrible when considered as the dogs of Russia may have viewed it. That is what Author Nazhivin does, with tremendous effects of comedy and insane tragedy. He sharpens his point by endowing the dog-characters with the traits of the human animal as variously found in Russia. Also he uses this psychological trick in reverse, and the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Like Dogs* | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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