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Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...
Pheasant was the illegitimate daughter of Maurice Vaughan, whose proffer of matrimony Meg had refused when she learned about Pheasant. On the return of Eden & Alayne, Pheasant is married to Piers. Soon, in this crowded turmoil of brothers and sisters, men and wives," there are readjustments. Renny and Alayne fall in love with each other, likewise Pheasant and Eden...
...helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty years and which will constitute particularly a criterion...
...Gentlemen proffer Blondes", said Anita Loos...
...still the international cob-web's trembling, Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany assumed the role of peaceable mediator, intimated that Germany would proffer her good offices between Russia and Rumania in the Bessarabia dispute. He vigorously scouted the "British Bloc" story as follows: "The British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain has never intimated to me a desire to build up a bloc of European nations against Russia, but has, on the contrary, categorically denied to me any such intentions...