Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which must bs stricken all news of crime, sport, the arts, literature. News of other nations than Italy must be cut to a skeletonized resume. III. After Nov. 1, all gasoline imported into Italy must be mixed with a fixed proportion of Italian alcohol. IV. Builders are forbidden to erect luxurious private houses of any sort, must confine themselves to public buildings and to dwellings for workmen, the lesser bourgeoisie. V. Restaurateurs and vintners are prohibited from selling anything after 10 p.m., from opening until further notice any new premises whatever for the sale of food or beverages. All bread...
...Dominus Apostolicus, according to Signor d' Annunzio, finds his palate so agreeably titillated by "cherry elixir" that plans are going forward to erect a "monastery" near D' Annunzio's exotic home on Lago di Garda (TIME, July 5), in which this rare tipple may be produced for ecclesiastical and lay consumption...
...Passed a bill to erect near tha Treasury a statue to Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and Madison, Minister to France and to Great Britain. (Bill went to the House...
There were rooms and rooms full of ladies with nothing on at all. Some of them lay on beds, gazing at you pensively. Some sat up, turned this way or that from the hips to exhibit their soft back curves, while others faced their beholders squarely erect, with something like defiance in their eyes and a metallic quality about their bold fronts expressive of womankind's underrated hardihood...
Aside from the above, may I suggest in view of the fact that as one ascends the beautiful marble steps of Widener and views the spectacle of the person and the Christian War God on the right and on the left why not erect a charcters "The God of Peace" and thereby keep the faith with these who sleep on Flooders Field," since we went into the World War "to end a war". "The God of Peace" and thereby "keep the faith with these who sleep on Flanders Field," since we went into the World...