Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irascible mood last week, perhaps because of the bleak weather in Austria which kept him indoors. Incessantly he telephoned not only Mrs. Simpson but various people in England. At 1 a. m. the Buckingham Palace operator was told from Schloss Enzesfeld to put on the wire Major Ulick Alexander, Keeper of the Privy Purse of King George...
Sonja as Greta Mueller is the daughter of the keeper of a small Swiss chalet. Her father, accused of professionalism after winning the 1908 Olympics, has trained his daughter for twelve years in the hope that she might win the award which he "won and lost...
Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
...collegiate boxing frowns on the practice of pounding a man to pieces from close quarters, the men do not follow up and close in as much as the professionals, but the action is fast, the blows hard. Lamar, looking on with several members of the team, serves as time-keeper and referee, and coaches at the same time--"Get away from there! . . . . Use your right more . . . . Get off those ropes . . . . Break...
...authorities were wary of the students' running up charge accounts, as shown by the decree that "no Undergraduate shall go or send to any Inn-Keeper or Retailer within three miles of ye College for any strong Beer, Brandy, Rum, Wine, or other spirituous Liquors, without paying immediately for ye same...