Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to obtain ?12,500,000 annually from France; we have a firm undertaking from Italy of ?4,000,000 annually, and what may be collected from the minor powers is estimated at, say, ?2,000,000. If Germany pays three-quarters of the reparations under the Dawes scheme, which seems a perfectly prudent and reasonable basis on which to found ourselves, that will...
...have left their happy homes for the Riveria and love come back and warn their daughters-in-law "not to make the same mistake I did, my dear." Do you admire a girl who, with a horrible example staring her in the face, can go off with a firm determination on the same chase? Does the sight of Romance battling with the forces of Society and The Right Thing, faltering, seeming to lose, and then winning after all, delight your soul? Go to the Circle. Lost in its labyrinths you will cry out, "But things like this don't happen...
...Manhattan, in Chicago, at Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, Quebec?similar rejoicing. Everywhere raucous youth snapped up "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of string, snatched wheels from baby perambulators, concocted numberless impromptu window displays. Awed jazz fanciers mentioned buggies and bananas in the same gin-whiffed breath...
...painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly burned it. Over 600,000 copies have been sold since an English firm took it in 1908. Beltane the Smith, The Amateur Gentleman and a dozen others are known wherever stories are read. Chunky, genial, teeming with tales, Jeffery Farnol is the modern Dumas-Dickens...
...underlying causes of the war were the secret diplomacy and imperialistic desires of the Triple Entente. In the future, secret diplomacy is one of the first things we must definitely abolish. This I believe can be done through the agency of the League of Nations, which has taken a firm stand for frank and open dealings between nations...