Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called me a bore! How am I going to make my living as an after dinner speaker if I am slandered by being called a bore? I have started suit in London against Mr. H. G. Wells for $50,000 on a charge of slander. I will not submit to being called a bore...
...first wife, the Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, had died in 1920. Princess Louise of Mountbatten heeded his "rational wooing," married him in 1923, bore him a child which did not live last May, has proved a kindly step-mother to his four sons and his daughter Ingrid...
Showdown. Chancellor Luther ascended the Tribune after his henchmen had assiduously bruited it about that he carried in his pocket an order for the dissolution of the Reichstag which bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment...
...cracks which were all but invisible even after scraping. With great difficulty the first block was removed and it was found that many more lay underneath. The blocks below the surface were all of pure limestone brought from the royal quarry on the other side of the Nile. Some bore the catouche of Cheops himself, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This may mean that Cheops filled the entrance of the tomb of a prdecessor or it might conceivably mean that Cheops himself was buried in the tomb...
...four men down the ice, three times forced Cumings to do fancy splits to avert a score. With half a minute to go the whole Tiger pack came down the ice in close formation, but Chase robbed Davis of the puck, and with no one in front of him, bore down upon the Tiger goalguard. A goal seemed sure, but as the bell rang, Cole-brook topped off his evening's work, by meeting Chase in a fierce dive that prevented a score...