Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obsessed with his ideal, Abetz convinced himself that the "reasonable and peaceful elements" in Naziism would help him realize it. Eagerly, he went back to Paris. This time he had 350,000 francs a month expense money from the Nazis. He used it to subsidize pro-German writers, to make himself the intimate acquaintance of powerful French politicians and industrialists. He paved the way for Munich and the failure of French arms...
...their friendship to the Sunday newspaper, The People? Didn't she know that he had already sold exclusive rights to his own story ("I Was a Vampire") to News of the World? Killer Haigh, who had signed the ?5,000 ($20,000) contract months ago to get the money for his defense, felt honor-bound to fulfill...
...Mindy: "Oh, I know I'm lucky I'd gather be singing than anything els in life. But sometimes you wonder when you're going to get something out of i for yourself. Dresses and traveling am song arrangements cost so much. I had more spending money when I worked for the candy store...
Having spent the war years in France, the sisters arrive in New England with their hearts set on founding a children's hospital. The fact that they have neither land nor money-and not even the wholehearted support of the bishop of the diocese-is no particular worry to them. The motto of the Order of Holy Endeavor, to which they belong, is Oramus et Laboramus (We pray and work). Sisters Margaret and Scholastica do more than that...
Latter-day Runyon creatures spoke a language of their own, a dialect which showed traces of remote English ancestry but which, despite its lack of formal grammar, was curiously courtly in its rhythms. When a Runyon character wanted to say that a tout had left money to his girl friend to buy him a tombstone, he said, "I am under the impression that he leaves Beatrice well loaded as far as the do-re-mi is concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present...