Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years ago when independence was offered, it was politically impossible for Señor Quezon to refuse. Now his job as President of the Commonwealth is to fix it so that Filipinos can eat the cake of independence and at the same time keep the cake of free trade with...
...four meals per day, with butter thrown in to replace customary margarine and "for younger soldiers a ration of milk to build them up." Instead of having to take care of his uniform and replace it at his own expense, Tommy Atkins will at all times be "completely equipped free" by His Majesty's Government, not only with service uniforms but with a "walking out uniform" of fetching blue, designed explicitly to increase his sex appeal. All this the War Secretary, markedly handsome and virile husband of famed and markedly feminine Lady Diana Manners, described in his final burst...
Most convivial U. S. winners were Willie and John Behrens, proprietors of a Brooklyn delicatessen. Although they won only $75,000 with a ticket on the horse that finished second, they spent the day dispensing free beer. Total prizes distributed in last week's Sweepstakes, which took in $14,000,000 amounted to $8.300,000. Of the $4,300,000 which came to the U. S. the Government will get some $1,500,000 in taxes...
...collection of classical records in the library is the largest of any in the University. The dramatist can find a chance for emoting in the House play, the editorially minded may want to use the Chronicle to relieve his over-burdened brain, while the budding young scientist can feel free to propound whatever theories he wishes in the Lowell House Scientific Society meetings. Perhaps there will be found future Walter Lippmanns among the members of the House Social Science Club...
...kicked our hand and the soup can off his snout. Blood flowed like a waterfall. He jumped to his feet and wriggled free from the professor who tried to grab him as he leaped to the floor. He spat malevolently at both of us. And he fled with a shriek of triumph through the open door...