Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Bursum, then "on the outs" with Fall came into Magee's office and said in effect: "You have a loan of $60,000 from a Kansas City bank. It's due pretty soon. You think it's going to be renewed. It isn't. Get ready to meet it." Magee had only $25,000. He appealed to his readers for support and within 20 days, when the note fell due he had the money. Some of them brought the money to his office so the New Mexico politicians could not find out who had furnished...
...woman who must be sacrificed. "I have no complaints. If by parting I can make for his happiness I will be proud, but just a little heartsore at the time when I think of what has been." Then, pensively, she added: "It's a pity, isn't it, this parting of two whom Allah seemed to have brought together to work His will by a harmonious, happy association ? Ours was a love match even in the sense in which you understand the term in the West...
...they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said to his family: 'Give me a word in one letter that means a food, and it isn't T. Quick. Give up? X.' (Meaning eggs for those who do not get the accent)?Blanche Ring...
...word in one letter that means a food, and it isn...
Parisian Nights. If these words penetrate to Buffalo Bend and Lockjaw Junction, the inhabitants are hereby warned that the title of this conception might better be: "So This Isn't Paris." It is full of Apaches and helpless American girls wandering the streets; it is full of stealthy smiles and lizard looks; it is full of just what a cinema of Parisian low life would be full of. Of course, the head Apache (Lou Tellegen) has a noble soul and rescues the American millionaires who wanted to sculp and got lost one night...