Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elzovir edition of Pierre Charron's 'De La-Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera,' and in no small measure responsible for its amazing first...
...enemies of good-will are on every hand. There are those who seek to find in every act a wrongful motive; who poison the air with suspicion; who will never be content...
...wearied with futile anxieties about the future. It is not for us to plan the unattainable. It is for us, in our day and generation, to play our part. . . . You will find us keen in trade, zealous for the advantages of commercial intercourse, but no one knows us well who fails to recognize, despite all our shortcomings, the dominance among us of the ideals of independence and democracy...
Answered Myron Timothy Herrick: "I am going to stay here. Somebody ought to stay. . . . Who will protect your monuments, your museums, your libraries? If the city is occupied by the Germans. . . . I ... shall speak in the name of the United States and be assured I shall find means to prevent all massacre and pillage. ... I do not doubt that you will be victorious. Paris, as a centre of art and culture belongs to all the world. . . . France cannot perish...
Wife Savers. Once more Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton cavort foolishly together, this time in a small Alpine village. Its inhabitants, with the exception of one beautiful girl, find their presence highly disagreeable. Wallace Beery becomes an Alpine guide, a profession in which his efforts are ludicrously insufficient. As Now We're in the Air at one point descended to extraordinarily vulgar farce, so Wife Savers allows its plot to depend upon a somewhat ribald interpretation of a note, written by the heroine, in which she informs the hero that he will have to marry her because...