Word: pay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House explained: The President is pestered by propagandists. They prey on his time, impede The Big Things. The Lord's Day Alliance delegates gained entrance to him by misrepresentation. Their declared purpose was to "pay respects" but once inside they had turned crusaders, made speeches. A new policy now bars all such pesterers (TIME, Aug. 12). The N. A. O. B. L. delegation was simply unfortunate in being the first to feel its effect...
...September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State. It began: "May the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these unfortunate men who are about to pay the extreme penalty for their transgressions...
...British Museum can also raise $165,000 within a year and pay that to Mr. Morgan, they can also keep the famed Bedford Book of Hours, also purchased last week for the quiet, cultured gentleman whose office is at No. 23 Wall Street...
...Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive of $250,000,000 worth of munitions and locomotives for the Allies, to peace time production for poverty-stricken markets. Answered President Vauclain, "To be a good businessman is to be an optimist. They will pay...
...much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house, where a blue-chinned bootlegger appeared. Boyd sampled his wares and found them unpalatable. When the bootlegger asked for pay, Boyd refused. A tussle ensued. The bootlegger produced a revolver. Paula snatched a convenient bottle and felled him. Then while Boyd dropped in a drunken stupor over the bootlegger's corpse, guilty Paula crept away...