Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Publisher likes this idea. His friends the booksellers do not object to it. It stimulates book sales generally. Only the laziest book customers rely upon the Club entirely. And many of the Club members, being either lazy or rural, never went to bookstores anyway...
There were plenty of people to cry, out of long habit, "There ought be to a law. . . ." Others, angry, were for punishing judges who allow themselves to be seduced by the thought (if not by anything more tangible) that "it will leak out anyway." A few realized that the only medicine for a sick society is an overdose of the original poison. It remained to be seen if the Browning filth would give rise to an antibody in the public current of thought, or if a still fouler injection was inevitably in store...
...Then suddenly, unexpectedly, startingly the fire bells rang out! Alarm! Shrieks of flames! No, shrieks of women--get me? Watch out for that smoke stack! What the --! Anyway it was the call of Duty. But even at such a time he was a Scotchman. 'I've got is leave you Martha,' he said, shaking his head sadly. 'It's a call from the department and I've got to go. I hope you get over your illness, Martha, but if you feel yourself slipping before I get back-please blow out the candle...
...English firm of Vestey Brothers. To each concern was apportioned an agreed percentage of the business to be done. At present the only firms of consequence who are outside this agreement are the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. and its satellites. Britons, who dislike Argentine meat anyway, were not cheered by the prospect of having to pay more for it now that the price war is over...
...hands the way he has can't last long. Indeed I no Ionger can call him an asset to the state. We've spleened on him ever since he began to spend government money on a house detective for his son at college. That's carrying things too far. Anyway he should have sent John to our own state university and kept the money in the state...