Word: robs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran hoofer, Mr. Cohan is qualified to put plenty of credible pathos into the part of "Hap" Farrell, of Carroll & Farrell -Songs, Dances & Funny Sayings. With the death of his partner, "Hap" falls upon evil days, tries to rob a man, is regenerated and goes out West where he makes some money. So inexorable is the fascination of life on a tank-town vaudeville circuit that he returns to a profession in which he can never be successful just because "every song & dance man always thinks he is the best one in the world...
...prison, decides to go straight on falling in love with a country girl and changes his mind when he finds out she is crooked too. The complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady, introduced in early sequences as Lila Lee's grandmother, revealed as an astute, avaricious criminal...
Soon after the first public passenger-carrying railway was finished (1825), forward-thinking Britishers proposed and designed tunnels under the English Channel. Always the plans were nipped by timorous Tories† with the same excuse: a Channel tunnel would rob Britain of her sacred isolation. In case of war some future William the Conqueror might march through the tunnel, instantly flood Britain with a French army...
...Surely, you would not rob a body...
...students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...