Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, certain that Michael Bonney was the finest college janitor in the U. S., prepared a banquet for him. Anxious to make merry, they publicly gave him the "degree" of Past Master of Janitorial Science. They gave him a watch. President Frederick B. Robinson said: "We can't pretend to Michael Bonney. He knows us inside and out just as he knows the college inside...
...nations' public debts to the U. S. The bankers at that time agreed to inform the State Department of projected loans in advance, so that the State Department might or might not express objections. The bankers acted voluntarily. There was no compulsion upon them nor did the State Department pretend to any legal right in its previewing of their private doings...
...their dealings with each other, do not always employ subtlety, An open breach of official relations between governments is always a sign either that one of the countries has committed a breach of confidence, or that one of them, for secret purposes of its own, is trying to pretend that the other has offended...
...have no doubt that the smart, rich city people you pretend to know (and maybe do, for all I care) feel like pinning a medal (or at least like hanging a rope of pearls) on any of their women who manages to have a child and not give up the ghost...
Frankly confessing his delight in the game, he solicits constructive suggestion in order that football may be saved from its overzealous friends. Such proposals as he himself offers may or may not be practical. He does not pretend to have discovered a panacea...