Word: robs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rob Godfrey, son of a jobber salesman, was too tall and thin to play football in Grand Rapids (Mich.) High School. He decided he wanted to be a painter. He studied drawing in Grand Rapids Junior College, went to Chicago in 1930 to take commercial art at the American Academy. Year later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place...
...claw! Let me quote and read between a headline from the Boston Traveler: "EMERGENCY DECLARED AS STRIKE NEARS WALL STREET." But not until then, you may be sure, for what is public health in America but the health of Wall Street, what prosperity but more opportunities for Them to rob the windows and orphans of elevator boys...
...each holdup, he would leave a suitable stanza of not badly turned verse. Once he signed himself "The PO8" Before his final capture, he reached a reward value of $18,000 "dead or alive." When he got out of jail, Wells Fargo paid him $125 a month not to rob them any more...
...point system of determining who today is the world's No. I Terrorist must credit Joseph Stalin with having set (Continued on p. 8) bombs which killed Tsarist officials; dynamited safes and robbed trains to get funds for the Communist Party (valuables thus obtained being disposed of in part through Fence Litvinoff); and later as Dictator occasioning the deaths of thousands of Russians by his drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number...
...unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence Sterne, this proverb goes back...