Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied saying that a young woman had sued the Inter-urban for breach of promise. No doubt the result will be as usual, simply that good newspaper editors will attribute the degeneracy of the tunnel system to modern youth and the generally low plane of New York's busy life...
...best things in life are free" came the words, and the Vagabond felt relieved. A worthy successor to "Horses, Horses, Horses", "Yes, We Have No Bananas", and "Barney Google...
...Halliday then related several curious incidents while carefully drawing a thin black line, darkening his eyebrows. "When the killing occurred in a New York performance a real doctor considered it his duty to try and save the wounded man's life; he left the stage as pale as a sheet and got a terrific race from the audience...
...best things in life are free", were the startling words which dropped from the divine lady's, shall be say tempress' lips at exactly the moment we are now writing about, and the Vagabond sat up with amazing rapidity, almost, it might be said, with alacrity. Did she mean the champagne? Impossible--she had had only one glass--her first, the Vagabond could have sworn. No, decidedly, she couldn't mean the champagne. Some rejoinder was necessary. The Vagabond searched his cataloguic, almost encyclopedeaic mind for the things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic...
Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...