Word: drains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family can no longer mortgage his house, which he has bought with his own money, nor spend his own wages in such away as to leave his wife homeless or destitute. Likewise a man cannot dig a well on his own land so as to drain off another man's well unless there is some sufficient cause for his doing...
...this vanished amid the ensuing centuries of cutthroat European misgovernment, during which Spanish Catholicism was imported and constituted a serious drain upon the purses of the ungently "converted" Mexicans. The Spaniards were followed by equally unscruplous adventurers, many in foreign pay. With the decades, such Mexicans as retained a national consciousness acquired a bitter hatred and distrust of all foreigners. They also developed the unlovely characteristics of a people too long oppressed...
...when they were married. The other guests at the dinner included Senator and Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth, the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House (Messrs. Tilson and Garrett) and their wives, Mr. Alexander P. Moore (onetime Ambassador to Spain), James A. Drain (onetime Commander of the American Legion) and Mrs. Drain, two former ex-Secretaries to the President (C. Bascom Slemp and George B. Christian) and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Dr. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce (the President's minister), Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Rinehart, Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut. Afterwards, seated...
...charity (American Legion Endowment Fund for Disabled Soldiers). Mrs. Dwight F. Davis had gone South, but gave her box to Princess Bibesco and Mmes. David A. Reed, Truxton Beale, Frederick Keep. All boxes, all seats were filled. And the fingers of the master wrought valiantly. Mme. Paderewski, ex-Commander Drain and Assistant Secretary of War MacNider assisted, later, at the camera...
...Fedora, Maria Jeritza was about to drain a glass of poison in the presence of the tenor hero (Giovanni Martinelli). She climbed upon a table, swayed there in tragic, shimmering loveliness. The table toppled, collapsed, spilled her into Martinelli...