Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Mr. Bradford sets out to give of these seven?as he admits?"paley damaged" and very miscellaneous souls. He makes no attempt to acquit them of their faults, but by showing the light in which they saw themselves, the damage seems more the result of circumstance than of intent...
JOHN BROWN. Like Burr, a man of many schemes, most of them failures; unlike Burr, intent on one end?believing that he had a divine mission. Kindly to animals, kindly to his family, but dominating both and willing to sacrifice them for his purpose, he stirred up a revolt apparently not knowing exactly how he was to succeed, and died on the scaffold believing he was serving his cause...
...gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago. She loved him-but he was a roué-oh such a roué!-so she took her millions and their daughter (his little daughtaire 'e 'ad not seen 'ardly at all) and came to America, intent upon marrying daughter to a nice, clean-cut, young American millionaire, sans blue blood or indiscriminately amorous proclivities...
...respective governments. On May 27, 1921, Secretary Hughes, in his note to the Mexican Government, confirmed the right of Mexico to safeguard her interests, but asked that Article 27 should not be interpreted retroactively. This was conceded by President Obregon in September, 1922. It was then felt that the intent of the article as applied under Mexican law was nothing short of confiscation. The commission, which will meet at Mexico City early in this month, will strive to reach a signed agreement with the Mexican Government to the effect that American owned oil lands will not be confiscated under...