Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to Stephen Austin's colony in Mexican Texas, enlisted in the war for Lone Star independence at 13. Later he practiced law in Houston, and Galveston, fought with the Texas Rangers against Mexico, rushed to California in '49, set up a law office in Stockton. The Know Nothings put him in the State Supreme Court in 1855, but that did not keep him from resting in jail next year while the San Francisco Vigilantes waited to see whether one of their men whom he had stabbed with a bowie knife was going to live...
...Judge Field," said she, "we hear that you have been bought. We want to know if it is true, and how much the Sharon people paid...
...Ottawa last week, Canadian M.P.'s from the West demanded to know whether the Dominion Government has given or is about to give the United Kingdom "a blank check which might be filled in with the lives of young Canadians." This emotional question Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King quietly and flatly answered thus: "There are no commitments and no understandings in the nature of commitments between this Government and the Government of Great Britain or any other Government...
...SALESMAN to His Majesty (after Queen Elizabeth has purchased three dozen pairs of silk stockings and walked on a short distance) : "May I show you these stockings, sir? Now you'll know them when the bill comes in. Thank...
...MAJESTY, fingering a ready-made hat, to an equerry: "You know that's one thing I can't buy in the whole world- a ready-made...