Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customs and Prohibition laws are probably the ones most commonly broken by the general run of U.S. citizens. . . . Is a private citizen corrupt, who, by bribery or otherwise, tries to make or save money by breaking or evading...
Judge Payne, the various revolutionary commanders have seized for their own military use entirely too much of the food and money sent to China by the Red Cross and other charities. Therefore it has seemed best to let the thousands of culpable Chinese revolutionary soldiers-and incidentally the millions of innocent Chinese citizens-starve...
Seton, in terms which she is unable to understand, that life for him must be a holiday, that he does not want to grab for money. Only Linda shares his lazy, glamorous ambitions. In the last act, of course, it is Linda with whom Johnny Case prepares to go to Europe...
...meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph Co.. donors of the prize money, could not believe that anyone would make a joke for the centennial of Schubert's death, cabled Composer Atterberg and chose to accept a rather dubious denial. Others, less interested, reflected that a really good comedian rarely laughs at his own jokes; that neither the joke nor the laughter...
...married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly, is careful with his money and reads Shakespeare. He dislikes romantic roles and thinks the best picture he ever played in was The Big Parade...