Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...care to have a paper of such un-American spirit in my home...
...doubt, do for older people but for young people it is a different matter. We have more than a thousand young folks in our school and a large percent of them read TIME. We are doing all we possibly can to overcome these evil influences and to have a paper or magazine in our library that advocates just what we are working against is something we do not plan to uphold...
...throats, slit from ear to ear. But in life, as everyone knows, opera singers have to be careful of their health. This last reflection was one that occurred to Beniamino Gigli, celebrated tenor, as he sat in a Detroit hotel, one night last week, staring at a piece of paper. He read...
...note was a copy of one which the Detroit Chief of Police had received that morning, scrawled in illegible Italian on a piece of brown paper. Policemen had met him at the station. Detectives, ranked around him, had escorted him to his hotel. Now they watched him curiously as he sat reading the epistle that might be his death warrant. He crumpled it in his pudgy fist...
...counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll of 20 ft. John Henry Patterson, then running some coal mine stores, bought two machines to try to keep track of his counter losses. Shortages continued. He found that the clerks counted at night what cash they had left...