Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading room of the public library I noticed the sign, "Because someone is continually stealing TIME, it must be kept at the desk. Ask for it." There is free publicity for you. For several years I have known you are a genius but I never realized you would drive a person to such moral laxity...
...Joseph he was known as a retired businessman, an obliging fellow who visited sick neighbors and courted the esteem of established citizens. One neighbor recalled that "Dane" once borrowed a shotgun from him to go rabbit hunting...
Jesse Livermore, Wall Street operator, famed Bear, having received threats against his life following the stockmarket crash, made known that he had hired an armed bodyguard...
...fault of His Majesty the King-Emperor. Stubbornly, and to the huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George V refused to shake the hand of any representative of Soviet Russia, for it was the Soviet Government which decreed the assassination in 1918 of a brown-bearded, nervous little man known to the world as His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, known still to George V of Britain as "Dear Cousin Nicky...
...27th birthday of Prince George, last week, his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, sought to calm public uneasiness at the fact that for some weeks the precise whereabouts of H. R. H. have not been generally known. After asserting that Prince George had been "staying at Sunningdale and devoting a large part of his time to golf," Major Alexander said: "It must always be borne in mind that his digestion is weak and. what perhaps is not generally known, that he suffers from insomnia...