Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"When I suggested the sum of 100,000 pesetas General Silvestre flew into a raging fury. He cried that I was a robber. Then, before I knew what he was doing he struck me full in the face. The blow was so unexpected and so powerful that it knocked me...
A good way to seize the Government of Greece is first to occupy the central telegraph office at Athens with a handful of men. The operators should be forced to announce that the Government has been seized, and to demand expressions of loyalty to the new regime from the provincial...
Speculating further afield last week, a handful of alarmists prophesied that the treaty will mark the inception of a concerted Hispano-Italian program of "peaceful penetration" into South America through emigrant organizations and propaganda which may eventually threaten the Monroe Doctrine.
Normal revue humor on large stages usually depends on the comedian's ability to shout: "That was no lady, that was his wife." In a miniature, satirical show like Americana the attack is subtler. A satire on Rotary Club speeches, a burlesque jazz opera, a tabloid newspaper number, and...
Let a man who possesses only five dollars fancy he has caught you in the act of stealing one of them and you have started a fight. Last week the franc plunged suddenly from 40 to the dollar to nearly 50. Frenchmen, clutching crisp or crinkly banknotes, felt their wealth...