Word: publican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
...smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends, and a saucy look in his eye, and in his bearing an arrogant swagger. In his tie was a horseshoe in diamonds. He looked like a publican dressed up in his best to go to the Derby. 'I'll tell you,' said Rosie. 'He was always such a perfect gentle...
...leave Mexico City for New Jersey to begin his Republican campaign for the Senate. He broadcast a farewell to Mexico in which he gave his recipe for successful diplomacy. The Morrow method: 1) look for the likenesses, not the differences, between men; 2) be meek and humble like the publican, not proud and exalted like the pharisee; 3) remember a foreign country also has rights to be defended by its representatives. Declared Ambassador Morrow...
Democratic Representative John Mor?gan Evans, 67, Dry, held a very narrow lead for renomination over John Patrick Monaghan, 25, Wet, in the First Congressional District. Renominated in the Second Congressional District was Re- publican Representative Scott Leavitt who will face Tom Stout, Democrat, in the November election...
...episcopal hands laid on her again. Thus began Parson Dottery's troubles. But everyone, with the exception of the evil-minded Canon Dib-ben, his no less evil-minded wife, did what they could to help their parson: his housekeeper, Mrs. Taste, his sexton, Truggin, Farmer Spenke, Publican Toole. Everybody in the village was a character, shrewd in his own right, simple in his own way. Unlike most books ostensibly about parsons, Kindness in a Corner should offend no parsons...