Word: robs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move in the right direction has been made by Lowell House, whose common room remains open for guests until midnight on Saturdays. The ideal extension of this use of common rooms to all Houses and on all nights of the week would rob the rooms of their primordial function as a center for gregarious bachelors. But a rotating system, with the common rooms of each of the seven Houses open in turn until midnight, would provide a satisfactory solution from all angles. From the point of view of co-education, there can be no qualms concerning this proposal. Exactly such...
...Protestants have a long way to go before they can present such a united front. . . . Nothing will so rob Protestantism of its glory as will closed doors and closed minds...
...what at first looked to be a full dress assault and battery case with intent to rob, Patrick F. Bowditch, of Lowell House, and a friend, Dirck Roosevelt, were haled into a Cambridge district court yesterday...
Swart, handsome Jim Rob ("Bob") Wills, 40, son of a Texas sharecropping fiddler, has fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your...
...amount of cutting short of a total ban can rob "Scarlet Street" of its oppressive naturalism, of its rough sketch or unpleasant characters, illicit love, and miscarried justice. That the Johnston office passed it in the first place is gratifying, for it flies in the face of the precepts of movie morality set up by Will Hays...