Word: bring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they complimented her on its quality. She told them it ought to be good because "it costs us $6.25 a quart wholesale." She explained : "We don't handle gin because all the college boys drink gin....They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring their own gin." The Tysons & party paid $15 per pint for the $6.25-per-quart brandy. The whole check was $67.50. Agent Tyson offered to buy an interest in the place...
...DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT STOP NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE FACT STOP HERBERT HOOVER IS IN MY OPINION BETTER QUALIFIED FOR THAT OFFICE THAN ANY CANDIDATE WHO HAS EVER BEEN NAMED BY ANY PARTY STOP I AM MOST DESIROUS OF AIDING IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO BRING ABOUT HIS ELECTION...
...worth of the Congo; of how he was feted as an explorer but had his practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities" in the Congo-true tales of Blackamoors whose hands were hacked off when they failed to bring in sufficient rubber or ivory-were utilized by the Powers to compel Uncle Leopold to grant them more favorable trading privileges in his Congo. Thereafter, as before, the fabulous wealth wrung from strumpeteered Mother Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon...
...should he drop one event and play water polo? Said burly Coach William Bachrach of the water polo team: "Without Weissmuller the water polo team is punk; with him the team has a chance against any team, and what's the use of paying $15,000 to bring the water polo team here unless you give them a real chance for the championship!" Coach Bachrach won his point and Weissmuller was put on the water polo team. The French athletes caused a flurry when they refused to participate in the opening parade because a Dutch official had refused...
...argument was that "the young players were better off without Tilden bossing them around, anyway." Frenchmen, almost without exception, said that Tilden had been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since Lindbergh had Paris become so worked up over an American phenomenon...