Word: billete
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Assembled after an hour's labor, it read: "Don't work too hard. " Billet-Doux. In Chicago, friends of Draftee Gerald Callahand wrote him the long letter he had asked for. It measured 340 feet...
...should answer [the Duce's] billet-doux, Deanna, you might ask him why he's more tender of American than of his own youth. . . . What leader started the business of war for the young anyway...
...scene a farmhouse in the English marshes where aging, rouged Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom) is enjoying the fruits of hard work in the world's two oldest professions. Her dark, bonneted housekeeper (admirably played by Flora Robson) is saddled with two potty sisters, and tries to billet them on Miss Fiske. When the loonies strew her parlor with seaweed and dead birds, Miss Fiske bids them be off; but being penniless as well as potty, they have nowhere to be off to. In order to give the girls a home, the desperate housekeeper does her mistress...
Formerly in service with Signal Corps of Russian Army in Persia, 1915-1917, Hamadan billet. Sacramento, Calif...
...sayings. Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime to the girl with the pasty smile, and releasing his hold on the counter leg, flew through the swinging door on a single bounce...