Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International, Keystone, Acme, P. & A. or the Wide World picture services could have furnished him with a better photographic model than this blank face of a youth about twenty years Byrd's junior...
...TIME-Oh, Tempus-you better fugit before the Commander sees this-you know he has a few more years to his credit than this meaningless, insipid drawing gives him. . . . Look up a P. & A. photo and see if I'm just in my criticism...
They could not keep Jules, doorman for M. Briand, from appearing in all his medals. Jules said "War is abominable, but the army ... is fine." Also spoke Jules, "This American, too, Mr. Kellogg. Perhaps he will get to understand France better, like the American Ambassador does, and will make jokes and laugh like Mr. Herrick does with M. Briand...
...evenings, Georgians, Ossets, Inguschs and Armenians used to assemble in front of the bar in their colorful costumes, and in the morning the workmen's newspaper was better informed about the events in Caucasia than the larger papers in town...
They were loyal to Kaiser Wilhelm, to the last, and afterward. But today it is better to be a Republican, and to maintain at the Foreign Office the old standards of caviar, sturgeon, cold venison, pheasant and champagne...