Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like the Negro porter who was asked to change $10, I am grateful for the compliment. I am sorry that these funds do not exist, for they would be useful for Children's Relief...
...former Republican Prohibition Administrator to state that three-fourths of the dry agents were political ward heelers named by politicians without regard to Civil Service laws and that prohibition is the 'new political pork barrel,' I will ruthlessly stamp out. Such conditions can not and will not exist under any administration presided over...
...indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record. . . . A most unfortunate impression was created when a Laborite asked "Does corruption exist at Scotland Yard?" and Sir William Joynson-Hicks triumphantly and almost airily replied: "I think not. People tell me stories of that sort from time to time, but they won't hold water...
...people realize how difficult it is for a young woman to win her way, her living, on Broadway, even when she is gifted artistically. Broadway, whether in opera or musical comedy, and I have sung in both, is so full of promises, but one cannot exist on that...
Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...