Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end, Vaughan even took the offensive in a jocular sort of way. He was asked if he couldn't have kept his old pal John Maragon out of the White House just by telling the guards not to let him in. "I could do that, yes," he said, "but Maragon is a lovable sort of a chap. You cannot get mad at him. It is awful hard to do, at least." Maragon, he went on, would have to be "pretty well washed up, fumigated," but he thought that "most of Maragon's sins have not been...
...true to form. While the police prepared for the manhunt, his 20 or so men staged two more hit & run raids on police barracks, raising the total police and carabinieri killings attributed to them to an even 100. In a new letter to the Palermo press Giuliano proposed: "Let us give the judgment to the people of Sicily and have a poll. If the people condemn me, I promise that I will resign. But if the people want me, I want to follow my destiny...
Stern old Pierre-Ferdinand Renault, Jeanne's father, would let his daughter write to Louis by postcard only. Finally, after a good many cards had gone into the mails, Père Renault checked up on the young man's prospects and then popped the question: "You are corresponding with my daughter. What do you intend?" Louis' mind was already made up. In May 1908, he and Jeanne Renault were married...
...historic problem is the urgently pressing one of Canada's trade crisis. If the Washington talks do not produce healing prescriptions, St. Laurent must administer some bitter doses from his own medicine closet. He might even have to stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars, but it would undoubtedly place...
...public baths, and a favorite was the great new one built by Emperor Caracalla below the Aventine Hill. Tunics and togas checked, the patrons could idle away hours beside the marble pools, move leisurely from the steamy heat of the calidarium to the cool waters of the frigidarium, let slaves massage them with perfumed oils while they pondered politics, poetry and philosophy...