Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about my own age, and Mme. Tchaikovsky has absolutely astounded me by recalling where we had played, what we had played and other incidents. I do not have the slightest doubt now about her identity, and I am willing to spend all the money I have to prove her claim...
...discrepancy between his two brain children is not nice to contemplate. The second is about a pale and gawky elf who wins a scenario-writing prize, comes to Hollywood, is besieged by unscrupulous women who want him to get them in the movies and is finally permitted to claim the hand of his own true sweetheart. Those in whom a severe spanking might cause concussion of the brain will be thrown into pleasant convulsions by the crudities of this noisy, dirty farce. Helen Baxter was the only member of the cast who acted her part...
Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg went so far as to add that the U. S. does not recognize any claim that Japan possesses special interests in Manchuria...
...last week, Miller Vilgrain said: "We French millers do not advertise, and sell almost wholly to bakers, seldom to the housewife, who does little of her own bread or pastry making. The competition offered by American flour firms in France is negligible.* The French miller does not advertise or claim superiority for his individual brand of flour, because both the price and quality are regulated...
...considering a bill to pin another medal on the insomniac inventor. To this committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent records, and medals granted by that hierarchy of learning...