Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dripping tear are too often signs of antiquity. Pauline Frederick is one of its chief disciples now remaining and it must be said that she does much for its survival. In the present outburst, she is a business woman, no longer young, who marries a young man in her employ. The youth, it evolves, is really in love with her young sister. The opportunity for a grand renunciation scene is not overlooked. An excellent, if slightly oldfashioned, performance...
TIME'S "archaic" usage is employed for clarity. The title of "Governor" is commonly followed by the surname of the officeholder without the first name or the sex title ("Mr." or "Mrs."). Both Governess Ferguson of Texas and Governess Ross of Wyoming were preceded in office by their husbands. To employ the "modern" usage, "Governor Ferguson," etc., would not indicate whether the present Governess or her husband were meant...
...ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease. The main part of the Government's case rested on a charge that certain Liberty Bonds- several hundred thousand dollars' worth-which were bought with the profits...
...Dennett's. Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out. Proprietor Dennett failed, in 1901, for $92,000. Most of his creditors were women and missionary societies. His asset was one $20 hand-me-down suit. But young Mr. Childs, who had made some money in his employ, had by this time started a restaurant...
...their zeal to enforce the law, prohibition agents have already given severe jolts to the constitutional freedom from unwarranted search. Mr. Buckner's decision to employ the injunction, however praiseworthy as a showing of efficiency, comes between the people and their right to trial by jury