Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mine Host. In Winnipeg, Canada, Walter Broughton baited his want ad for a cottage with a promise: the landlord would be "cordially invited to all parties...
...nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
...battery of telephones to connect him with every corner of the enclosure. It has worked, so far. Original stockholders, who paid $5,000 a share, have been offered $62,500 for them. Besides paying out whopping dividends, Doc plows great chunks of money back into his gold mine-giving paying guests more comfort, beauty, entertainment and $100,000 races. This winter, at a cost of $400,000, he opened a fancy new lounge and restaurant, a kind of clubhouse for the general-admission trade...
Novelist Somerset Maugham, visiting friends in San Francisco to celebrate his 75th birthday, had something pleasant to remember. "The nicest compliment ever paid me," he announced, "was a letter from a G.I. in the Pacific during the war, who wrote me that he had read an entire story of mine without having to look up a single word in the dictionary...
...promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once an enterprise is established, it always slips through his fingers...