Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...
...Miguel Primo de Rivera, Jr., son of Spain's Dictator, did not arrive in Manhattan last week, via the Spanish Royal Mail Line, but on the French Liner Paris, with intent to organize in North & South America a chain of Spanish Tourist agencies...
...romantic Tashkent, in the wilderness east of Lake Aral and north of the Hindu Kush. Before the Russian 1917 Revolution only eight Russian cities had universities. The Soviets have set up a dozen more in districts which they control. All are staffed by men who, radiating Communistic culture, are intent on obtaining scientific proofs for their materialistic theories...
...said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms and handing out sandwiches or "free lunch" with drinks in lieu of serving meals. The Smith record included votes to enable such establishments to continue in business. At no time, of course...
...billion dollars was represented by four men, who sailed lightheartedly on the Majestic, intent on grouse-shooting, yachting, sightseeing in the British Isles, Normandy. The four: John Pierpont Morgan; Morgan Partner Charles Steele; Andrew William Mellon; William Larimer Mellon...