Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no truth in that platform plank, there is no candor in it; it has not even got the essence of common everyday honesty and it was never intended to have...
...have which they must get over. I can say, however, that many men vote as do their wives. . . . It would not matter now if the Labor Party won at the [British] general election, because labor has stopped killing capitalists in England and has acquired a good deal of common sense in dealing with affairs...
Definition: "Great Britain and the Dominions are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...about the Swedish Match Co. is the organization by which it maintains and strengthens its monopoly. In 1923 it fostered the subsidiary International Match Co. to handle foreign manufacture and marketing. Swedish Match is itself controlled by Kreuger & Toll, an organizing and managing company which also owns all the common stock of the Swedish-American Investment...
...versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well. The haughtier but hardly more discriminate Katherine de Vausselles flippantly ignored his lust for her when he could no longer buy pretty trinkets. To forget this voluptuous witch he decided to leave Paris. But beforehand...