Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness, Signor Zaniboni's secretary, Signor Carlo Quaglia, who betrayed him to the police, insinuated during the testimony certain remarks about Tito Zaniboni's private life. "Spy! Agent provocateur!" cried Signor Zaniboni, "you lured me on! I swear by all I hold sacred, by my little girl, that you yourself begged the honor of firing a second shot at Mussolini. ... I thought you were a spy till then. Then I believed you! . . . Pig! You shall not attack my morals or my honor or the name of any woman dear...
Paunchy Mr. Thompson was scheduled to be inaugurated with pomp on April 18. He was reported to have offered the job of press agent of his administration to Maurine Watkins, authoress of the sensational, successful murder play, Chicago, now playing in Manhattan...
...ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
Moreover, during the week, 125,000,000 gold marks ($29,745,000) were paid up on the dot to Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert who wrote down this sum as the first half-yearly installment of interest due, for the third reparations year, on the Dawes Plan loans of 5,000,000,000 gold marks. As security for these loans a virtual mortgage is held on the chief units of production comprising the mechanism of German industry...
...novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif to his ranch, on the theory that two can starve as cheap...