Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this unusual medium of exchange was inspired by an excerpt from A. P. Herbert's "Uncommon Law," in which the author states that under the Negotiable Instrument Requirements a bank is compelled to cash a check even if written on the side of a cow. The current inflationary price of cows, however, forced Hertz to improvise...
...heroine of a 1940 popular song. Excerpt: Rosita gives you Lesson One Chiquita gives you Lesson Two Madame's there to supervise Every step and exercise...
...strain that runs through the verse volume is one of complaint at overcrowding in the Yard. For instance, an excerpt from the year 1909 deals with Emerson Hall thus...
...Party wound up its family outing at seaside Scarborough with a brave show of working-class solidarity. Hit of the show was 69-year-old "Granny" Nelly Cressall, Labor's grand old lady, whose pep talk was recorded and will be played at street corners during the campaign. Excerpt: "I remember the days when my neighbors used ter come and ask me fer a penny fer the gas meter-and I 'adn't got it. Now they come creatin' about their big gas bills. It makes me mad-'aven't they got memories...
...hunt for a divorce), is on record as saying only that she is "terrific." Only one of the men who have pursued her does not share this impassioned discretion. Spanish Bullfighter Mario Cabre freely expressed his feelings at her departure from Madrid last spring in a book of poems. Excerpt...