Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe. Mrs. Coolidge...
...Gordian Knot was cut when M. Briand summoned to his Paris office Norman Armour, Charge d'Affaires of the local U. S. embassy, and asked him to transmit a note from the League, not to Secretary of State Kellogg, but to Chairman Kellogg of the Pan-American Conference...
...fail to put through farm relief within three years, you may cut off my head...
...Coty owns Figaro and Gaulois, and the new Ami du Peuple, founded some months ago and sold, in spite of bitter opposition by other papers and the news-vending organizations controlled by them, at the cut-rate of two sous. The usual price of a paper in Paris is five sous (25 centimes, about one cent). With headlines that would be called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt) Helen...
...streets will be cut through the three blocks, parallel with Fifth Avenue, one of them leading to the rear doors and ramps of the Opera. Along these new streets, and through all the rest of the property, Mr. Rockefeller will erect new buildings for old (skyscrapers, hotels, stores, apartments). And the new streets will be developed as the finest and most exclusive shopping district in the world...