Word: payed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mooching quietly about in those backwoods sections, he might have been a detective looking for moonshiners. But his quarry was far more elusive than that. He was looking for, and asking for, and prepared to pay for, the right to catch−brook trout...
...country," cried Belgium's Francqui, "is still paying ?3,000 a year to the descendants of the English Duke of Wellington. That is part of the price of our freedom after Waterloo. The agreement was made 15 years later, in 1830. We have paid ?297,000 ($1,443,420) in 99 years, and we still pay, without grumbling...
...wedding." Quite apart from discharging his duties at these nuptials, Dr. Schacht conferred long and earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Hermann Muller. Accordingly he was able, when he returned to Paris, to mention for the first time a definite annual Reparations sum which Germany offers to pay. Although shrouded in official secrecy this offer was soon known to be 1,500.000,000 gold marks per year ($356,850,000). Promptly the Allied delegates repeated their demand for $625,000,000; and Messrs. Morgan and Young were understood to be suggesting $500,000,000. Thus after a month...
Benefactor. Rare indeed are musical enterprises of any sort which have been made to pay for themselves. The Dayton Westminster Choir makes no such pretense, has for patroness the able and energetic Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti...
...Manhattan, Dr. I. Mortimer Smokier, dentist, pulled and pulled at the teeth of Mrs. Molly Blumlein. In 17 pulls he got 17 teeth, but none the right one. Now Dentist Smokier, by court decision, must pay $16,000 to Mrs. Blumlein, and $3,000 to Husband Blumlein for interference with his wife's duties...