Word: free
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in the five-year history of the Irish Free State, President William T. Cosgrave was able to announce, last week, that State expenditures have been, for a whole year, less than State income...
...There is cause for optimism!" cried Mr. Cosgrave, proudly revealing that while the national debt of the U. S. is $160 per citizen, that of France $456, and that of England $814, the shrewd citizens of the Irish Free State are nationally in debt but $35 each, or $104,000,000 in toto...
...commanded Promoter Crandall to stop his marathon. Half an hour before the time set for foreclosure, Promoter Crandall mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech and announced his immediate intention of transferring the entire spectacle to another state. "In this land of the free and home of the brave," he shouted, "no one ever got stomach ulcers from dancing . . . every participant except the male member of team No. 7 has agreed to follow me to New Jersey tonight...
...leaf turned over in honor of Hettie was quickly spattered with the blood of that worst of offenders, one who had struck a woman. And when later Lacy pitched himself into the free-for-all cattle wars of wide-open Arizona, his deserving victims fell thick and fast. Hettie's family, innocent immigrants to Arizona, had engaged a slick cattle thief as foreman of their ranch, and their cattle losses were climbing to the tens of thousands when Lacy, posed as a rustler himself, smartly unearthed the plots of rustling outfits, and plugged the treacherous foreman full of justice...
Europe, characterized the U. S. as one of the greatest influences toward international brotherhood and as "that great, great republic which has inspired free government of the earth to fight for freedom...