Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the guest list began to press 300, Mr. Banks could see the handwriting on his bankbook. He took his daughter aside, said hoarsely: "I'll give you and Buckley fifteen hundred dollars to elope." She thought he was kidding...
...long since the CRIMSON has misquoted me that in gratitude I probably should remain silent at this point. In fact, your batting average over the last five years in quoting Harris is at least 900 percent; in the preceding fifteen years, no higher than 500 percent...
...Spent a happy fifteen minutes exchanging Bible quotations with Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
Then President Truman, who loves to trade Bible learning, quoted from memory another pertinent passage (Isaiah 2:4): "And . . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Fifteen minutes later they were still swapping biblical quotations when the President's secretary reluctantly broke in to announce the next caller...
...Fifteen years have passed; little Cesariot is now old enough to become a soldier, and Panisse is on his death-bed. That is the way things are as Marcel Pagnol begins "Cesar," the last part of his celebrated French trilogy of the Marsailles waterfront folks. "Marius" and "Fanny," the other two films dealing with the people, were perhaps funnier, for "Cesar" is more concerned with plot and its happy ending...