Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the wizard recited a magic formula: Let the Government guarantee landlords the same income on their lands that they now get, then let it give a cultivating tenure to farmers, supply them with liberal credit, better buildings, and exact of them scientific agriculture...
...other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand in the man's pocket. . A woman came running up, and as the hold-up men disappeared she took the victim away. I haven't got the exact dates and places, but I will have and I will claim that $100 and give it to the Illinois Fundamentalist Association...
...family fireside, and decree retaliation. They hire three healthy and ingenuous college youths to force their husbands' jealousy. To acquaint themselves with these young men they arrange a house party at Glen Cove (where orderly house parties are normally the rule). The young men, somewhat puzzled by the exact extent of their duties, decide to earn their money thoroughly. By the time the husbands arrive dresses are torn, shoes are off, and hair is all unpinned. The situation is complicated by the presence of three young ladies with whom the husbands hoped to spend the same week...
...true that the functions of their office exact neither physical nor mental effort from these gentlemen. Sweatshop workers, boilermakers, bookkeepers, often look upon them with envy. Guards have it easy. All they gotta do is just stand, and once in a while tell some loonhead where...
...reason of his resignation as Secretary of State was also promulgated (the common story is that he refused to sign the second Lusitania note to Germany). It was said that he had prepared a note to the Austrian Government (accounts of the new version differed as to the exact matter in question) which Mr. Wilson recalled and revised without consulting him, and that he thereupon resigned. Some doubt was cast upon this account...