Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary expenses, fruit, ginger, citron and so forth, I spend about 25c a day. Too much! But I am going to quit. . . . The food is not so good, so we chip in a shilling a day for-Oh! raisins in the boiled rice...
...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...
...mind about the passport-I hope they keep me here for months, and I don't mind about the money, but I wept all yesterday for my bracelets, not for their value but because I liked them so much...
...with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince Franz are believed to be childless. Surely, urge their well-wishers, two such devoted lovers may be pardoned much...
...Falke's crew learned without particular interest that their ship had changed owners. Not the Hamburg Kauffahrtei Gesellschaft, to which they had belonged for so many years, but a firm known as Felix Prenzlau & Co. would pay their wages in future. In the freight trade one Captain is much like another. They were not excited when their new master, one Capt. Tipplitt, came aboard. But Capt. Tipplitt turned out to be different...