Word: method
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...
...special section of the Fourth Civil Tribunal, presided over by Rieul Paisant, expert on international and U. S. state laws, who speaks English comme un Anglais. Thorough examination of all applications is to result under the new regime and particular attention is to be paid to the method of establishing residence and the possibility of collusion between the litigants...
Although "shooting over dogs" is the most time-sanctioned method, it is now entirely passe, chiefly because smart, modern sportsmen no longer want to trudge after dogs which advance before them, flushing or scaring up the birds...
...believes in the League of Nations method, one must practice it. It is not worth while to proclaim its benefits every year during one month only, to return during eleven other months to tactics which failed to avert the World War. That is the reason why I will not go to Geneva...
...method would be to call at the office of a rich citizen and then take six simple steps: 1) offer him a drink out of a bottle of real "Old Parr" whiskey; 2) assure him that many another bottle of "Old Parr" whiskey, smuggled in on Pullman trips from Canada, could be secured at $6 for each quart bottle; 3) meet the rich citizen at an appointed place; 4) deposit in his automobile four cases of real old shoes, bricks, rocks, broken glass and garbage; 5) take from his hand $285 in payment thereof; 6) vanish...