Word: lot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night of the "murder" he had started out with Tiller. He explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid. Next day I went away. That's all they was to it." Some witnesses felt that he looked "a lot like Connie." The girl's avowal that he was not her man was corroborated by others who knew him well...
...students were quick to boast of their beloved professor's exploits. In particular they told how, when his own appendix needed outing, he lay down on the operating table of his lecture room, called for students taking his course in advanced surgery, selected one by lot and bade him cut away...
...ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING...
...have $8 to put in the bank and $2 to start business again. "Should you live 10 years and continue to buy booze from her and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have money enough to bury you decently, educate your children, buy a house and lot, marry a decent man and quit thinking about...
With Paris, never his home town, Louis had no sympathy and less patience. Once he made a speech to some learned scholars of Paris' famed Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When...