Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition Amendment. Hastily the press consulted the Association, but the Association did not know that Mr. Lamont had left its ranks. Mr. Lamont, asked by the press, said that he had resigned "sometime within the last six months." Later he said that a friend had once asked him to join the Association and through that friend he had forwarded his resignation. "We all do some things for friendship," he explained. Mr. Lamont's friends in Chicago were amused. Said Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals: "We Methodists believe in repentance...
...first President of Slovakia seemed to be a Professor Mihalusz, at least he had signed the super-crisp letter. What more natural? Even Siamese know that the President of Czechoslovakia is Professor Masaryk. Obviously Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
Signor Alberto Pirelli: "We are building a nice house, but we are not yet sure what its dimensions are to be and we don't know what furniture we are going to put into it." Against the fiscal defeatism of Sir Josiah Stamp, the studied pessimism of the Germans, and Signor Pirelli's attitude of uncertainty, the U.S. Delegates were understood to be strongly militating for a solution, with the well-nigh irresistible impetus of their moral and financial prestige...
...razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about his daddy's exploits. I'm fair astonished! Blown, as you might say. How could anyone who wasn't at Mons know all the Captain knows about...
...Misunderstood! By critics especially and by my colleagues and rivals. They do not know that my art is different from that of any other singer. For them singing is a matter of doing beautifully the lines of the melody...