Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here at the Plymouth this week we have one of those problem plays that take place in the bosom of a family none too pleasant to start with, and which before the curtain has dropped has suffered one seduction involving two marriages and a suicide, not to mention a few minor unpleasantnesses...
...which he was puryeyor and of which he was frequently (it was an easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that...
...bosom with the jewels...
Sweltering in cassock, alb, chasuble and stole, Father Guerrera looked down at his flock. His eye fell on a cool expanse of bare shoulder and open bosom. "Elida." he roared, "go home and take off that dress...
...Rothschilds did found five banking houses in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. Shrewd enough to guess that Napoleon could not last, they supported the Allies for reasons of good business rather than sentiment. Nathan Rothschild, no bosom friend of Wellington, did bid for a loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused. Statesmen like Metternich had, as the picture shows, agreed with Baring Brothers, London bankers, to handle some of the bonds privately for their own profit. When Rothschild sent the prices down...