Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full moon in Cambridge is like a campaign speech of "Fighting Bob" La Follette's before a group of deaf mutes. In the country there is some raison d'etre for a moon. Mountains, valleys, and tall timber are creatures of the night. They take on new lustre and majesty in cool October moonlight, and the awkwardness of day is softened. There have been, there are, and there will be many apostles of the moon. An Emperor or of Rome, one Caligula, a mad wight, once paid court and married her. He died soon after, broken hearted and without...
...Bob Again. When Charles Victor Bob, strapping, breezy and likeable, emerged from the West with tall tales of precious metals, he found a friend and supporter in elderly, rich August Heckscher of Manhattan. It must have grieved Friend Heckscher to learn, last October, that Promoter Bob had vanished, left behind records which demanded his arrest when he was found (TIME...
Awaiting trials for using the mails to defraud and for criminal conduct of his companies, Mr. Bob has been busy again. Three weeks ago he brought bankruptcy suits against several of his pyramided companies, saying they were paying other creditors in preference to him. Fortnight ago he brought suit for $25,000,000 against Mr. Heckscher, Mr. Heckscher's son G. Maurice and 16 other men, charging they had run his companies illegally during his "absence." Last week silent Mr. Heckscher was no longer silent, brought a $250,000 suit against Promoter Bob on grounds of fraudulent representations made...
...toll bridges, I did not have a pistol in my hand, in fact 1 am such a poor marksman that I never shoot until the other fellow has shot at me. I have been busy writing letters trying to explain how it could be do'ne. Ranger Bob Goss, a member of my company, can hit a playing card turned edgewise with his pistol turned upside down. He does this about twice out of every five shots...
...stumped for him during his Presidential canvass of 1924, made many a vote with her sound political sense. Stateswoman though she was, she would never accept public office. When Senator La Follette died in 1925, she refused. Progressive pleadings to take his seat at the Capitol, designated "Young Bob" as his father's successor, continued to serve as an adviser of quiet wisdom...