Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is for instance, his Tie-Them-Down Powder, which, slyly slipped into tea, coffee or other beverage is guaranteed to fill the husband with an intense desire to spend his evenings at home. If, having been given Tie-Them-Down, the husband still shows no signs of curtailing his...
He said that Japan does not desire to foster the 5-5-3 ratio, but rather considers its implications irritating to her amour propre. "We had not thought," said Viscount Saito smoothly, "that the ratio on capital ships should necessarily be extended to auxiliaries." This first point was in itself...
Sirs: Re "Bitter Taunt" p. 2, TIME, June 13, 1927, I write you as one of the humblest of the mighty host comprising the citizenry of the British Commonwealth of Nations. As a temporary resident (and therefore guest), of these great United States of America. As one who served with...
"Most Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other...
I willingly concede that you have a large vocabulary and use good English. I like your publication because it tends to improve my English and increase my vocabulary, but I have no desire to increase it with such words as amanuensis. Sensible men would prefer stenographer or secretary I would...