Word: fee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME has changed all that. Once a week it brings me the news boiled down and expressed in such a delightful and humorous style as to fee interesting, even fascinating. Perhaps the best compliment I can pay you is to state that in TIME I read news that did not interest me in the least in any other publication...
Over "that un," as he recognized the trap in which he had permitted himself to be caught, there passed dismay, mortification and sheepish acquiescence. Commanded by custom "that un" had no course but to accept the derelict's defense and look forward to the official fee of ?1. "That un" was no less a personage than Sir Travers Humphreys, Recorder of Chichester, Senior Counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) since 1916, one of London's most eminent attorneys. Ordinarily Sir Travers' fees never think of halting short of four figures...
...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
...Senior Album Committee has announced that a number of members of the Senior Class have forwarded their subscription blanks to the Committee without enclosing the necessary remittance of $3. No orders will be accepted without the paying of the requisite fee...
...them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira (4¢) as his fee. . . . I am sure that this traffic is not sanctioned by Caruso's widow...