Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true," said Professor Jeanroy, "that every American student in Paris has to be a millionaire. Since the war many Americans have come to Paris to throw money wildly away. All Parisian sellers and landlords therefore look on Americans as fair game with the theory that whatever they don't get out of them some one else will...
Perhaps he took too much. Anyway, something allowed him the visionary eyes of a Merlin for he was able to look about the conference and picture the same group ten years from now. The Browning Club of Cherokee Falls will be addressed this afternoon by Mr. Blank, the young American poet, who will take as his subject "Browning's Effect on Me". The one with the lorgnette will have another just like it and swell with emotion at intervals of ten seconds by the wrist watch her husband, gave her as a peace offering the last time he came back...
...Look at the history of punishment. England used to kill a man for picking pockets. They held their executions on a high hill so all could see and feel the deterrent effect. But there were more pickpockets among the crowds surrounding the scaffold than at any other time...
...appeared that, after all, Torres had been executed by military authorities. President Calles insisted that he had been tried, condemned and executed as a train robber. Senator Moses, however, did not like the look of the whole proceeding, especially since it was said in some quarters that the train Torres had "robbed" was a troop train carrying Calles' forces. So the extradition treaty waited...
...oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends to see how good I look in French models...