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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole show is an artificial fantasy woven around a master thief and his two young apprentices who get themselves invited to the summer estate of a wealthy British couple and plan to rob the latter of their valuables and their nieces. An example of the frivolous boulevardier school of writing, the play harks back in form and style to the tradition of the commedia dell' arte, of Moliere and of Marivaux...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Thieves' Carnival | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair of inept hoodlums, passing up Karp's well-heeled liquor store, rob Morris instead and pistol-whip him when they find only $10 in his cash register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Grocer | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...created by Van Doren's consecutive appearances, CBS's $64,000 Question last week changed its ground rules so that a successful contestant can return week after week, may go on until he wins $256,000. First memory expert to be eligible for the new goal is Rob Strom, ten-year-old Bronx science whiz, who won his first $64,000 with barely a pause over some half-dozen tough questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Whither Charley? | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...Glass of Tequila. Fenton announced that he had indeed planned to rob the Americans, but that the job had been carried out by two local tourist guides. Quickly arrested, they protested innocence. Then came word that the bodies on the beach were those of two unidentified auto-accident victims. In jail Fenton was interviewed by a U.S. newsman, who gave him a glass of tequila to calm his nerves. Fenton broke the glass, slashed his wrists. Mercilessly, police grilled the remorseful travel agent far into the night-until at last he broke down, confessed in full. At week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that two bodies had been washed ashore 100 miles north of Acapulco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Guided Tour | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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