Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"For ordinary expenses, fruit, ginger, citron and so forth, I spend about 25c a day. Too much! But I am going to quit. . . . The food is not so good, so we chip in a shilling a day for-Oh! raisins in the boiled rice and so on. . . ."
Peter tore the capital of Muscovy from Moscow and planted it at St. Petersburg which he had created on a marsh. Peter gave his people the Cyrillic alphabet which seven-tenths of them have not yet mastered. He introduced tobacco and knouted any courtier who did not take to a...
"It's a good thing to do for a king!" added King Alfonso. "My idea of the kingship is that the monarch must set the example. . . . There are always plenty of people who will occupy themselves with diplomacy and foreign relations and make that their specialty. I am inclined...
George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision."
The sculptor's friends maintained he was sent to the asylum on a false and illegal petition of his brother, Walter Ludwig Dreyfuss, wax-paper manufacturer. The sculptor's friends asked for a jury trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was...