Word: filles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principally confined to stereotyped laudations of the Kellogg Treaty by all hands, while everyone was preoccupied with the Müller-Briand parley over Rhineland Evacuation. Outstanding was the news that Spain, who, as everyone knows, has not always been too amicable to the League, had been elected to fill one of three nonpermanent vacancies in the council. Venezuela and Persia were elected simultaneously after the assembly refused to re-elect China...
...more than 13 gallons of hard liquor may be bought in any one year by even the most virtuous citizen. Less than 40% of the passbook holders ask for enough to fill their quotas. Single, self-supporting women were sternly held down by Dr. Bratt to an average of a gallon a year. Bachelors must attain the age of 23 before becoming eligible for a passbook...
...Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board...
Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...
...book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when it did not rain, there was so much moisture...