Word: putting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing with this place before I came. It was nothing to her. So I got it on a lease for my lifetime at 300 francs a year [$12]. Now she thinks when I die that perhaps the Government would like to buy it. So in that case she will put on a large price and make money out of the last home of Clémenceau." Chuckling, he added, "When I tell her I am feeling ill she is quite cheerful, and when I tell her I am in good health she is very sad. A very curious old lady...
...blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...
Detestable and impious to all right-thinking Moslems were the wines, spirits and liqueurs introduced by "progressive" ex-King Amanullah, who was ousted when he went to the further extreme of commanding his women subjects to unveil their faces, his men to put their legs in trousers...
Bigger than all New England is the Mexican state of Sonora. Biggest news of the week in Sonora was a ferocious scheme, calmly announced by the great landed proprietor Francisco Fimbres to put to death a whole tribe of Apache Indians, braves, squaws and papooses. Local papers praised Ferocious Fimbres. He claimed to have every assurance that the Mexican Government would not try to stop his private massacre...
...route, Bush Service will be able to give the exporter what is known as "a continuous document of possession," so that he can borrow money on his goods while they are in transit. At present such goods are a frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget about them until he receives the money for them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication of the scope of the system: in Rumania there will be Bush Service offices in 14 cities, only...