Word: favours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even so the advice of his soldiers was probably merely cover. For the sum mer he had been waiting on events to turn in his favour and had been making his preparations to seize the opportunity, when it was offered to him. The Russian Pact appeared to give him the advantage which he was seeking and thereafter there was no time to lose, if mud was not to be added to Poland's allies...
...think, the best way is to correspond with an American. Therefore I beg you is there not a girl, about 14-18 years old she will correspond with me. Perhaps is one in your office or one of your employees has a daughter or relation. Please, do me favour. If you have found a girl, say her that she write to me at once...
...pious Jews for thousands of years, divorce has simply meant compliance with God's rule as laid down in His theocratic handbook, Deuteronomy (24:1): When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife...
...freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks he is wittiest". These brands of favour are eagerly reprinted in the metropolitan papers; only to be hauled forth and brought to light years later when the recipient is a candidate for the Presidency or the Chairmanship of a mighty concern...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...