Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serfs. She washed some foul breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
...written as she was wont. Of burning her candle at both ends for the "lovely light" it gave, she used to rhyme. She has raced barefoot at dawn through the Bois de Boulogne, and elsewhere. When she married Eugene Boissevain, Manhattan importer, in 1923, it was with a fillip at destiny's nose, for next day she was to enter a hospital for a grave operation...
...greatly favor the footnotes in TIME. They are always interesting and often provide a diverting fillip, as well as information on side lights that could not be incorporated in the article proper without awkwardness. For instance, I was very glad to see in TIME, June 14, p. 7, the clear description of poker, which previously had been principally a name only...
...fillip one should brook...
...school, which includes the stock market fraternity, favors lower rates largely on the basis that it would provide a cause for an advance in the prices of bonds and other fixed investment securities, as well as for a speculative fillip to the general stock market. Borrowers of money generally, however, favor a rate reduction...