Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's political sensation was a proposal by Deputy Outrey that France cede Cochin-China to the U. S. as payment in full for the Franco-U. S. debt...
...other people. Only because the German settles down in any workable industrial harness and tugs mightfully is the Dawes Plan practicable. Today there hangs eminent over Germany a new super-Dawes work harness. Already there is a whispered possibility that Germany may not be able to meet in full the stupendous two billion gold mark Dawes payment to the U. S. due in 1927-28. What then? Assumedly the dismaying possibility of partial default may be staved off by U. S. loans to Germany with which German reparations can be paid -at the cost of envassaling German industry...
...Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe-to get taken on as a manual laborer. I found work and on Monday, the 14th, I began: eleven hours' work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour. I made 121 journeys with a handbarrow full of stones up to the second floor of a building in process of construction. In the evening the muscles of my arms were swollen. I ate some potatoes roasted upon cinders and threw myself in all my clothes on to my bed: a pile of straw. At five...
Cartoon. Cartoonist McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune pondered well this atrocity, drew a cartoon in which an Arrow-collared, tortoise-spectacled, straw-hatted "American Newspaper Reader" was shown winnowing the chaff of rumor from a hopper full of "Reports of the Mexican Religious Controversy." Next day the Calles Administration categorically denied that any Catholic priests whatsoever have been executed or shot down since the inception of the religious crisis...
...least two kisses and three burning looks. And even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita