Word: quids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such butchery as had already wiped out, in both White and Red territory, some 120,000 innocent non-combatants in Spain's savage, stalemated civil war (TIME, July 27 et seq.). A quiet little deal was arranged by General Miaja through intermediaries with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Of the quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great big bouncing family: Mother Miaja, Daughters Pepita, Concha, Luisa and Teresa, and Son Emilio...
Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...
...nobis eloqui quippe quae simillima sit paene omnibus Plauti comediis; Philolaches enim, adulescens Athenaeus, absente patre amantem suam manumittit atque grandem impendit pecuniam. Pater Theopropides revenit. Tranio, servus et omnium actorum maxime alacer, hunc ludificatur, Philolachi succurrit. Terribilem larvam dicit domum Theopropides nune habitare. Mox tamen pater cognescit quid sit verum, nee minus filio dat veniam. Itaque, cum aulaeum tollitur, nemo histrionum non est felix et contentus...
...other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...
Worse could scarcely befall a family than the woes that beset the Hardcastles of Hanky Park, a suburb of Manchester Father Henry, who steadfastly refuses to "go Bolshy," prays only for God to give him work. Son Harry wins 22 quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble. Unable to subsist as a human being on her meagre wages, Sally Hardcastle (Wendy Hiller) snatches a few rewarding moment; out on a Lancashire heath with an agitato named Larry (Brandon Peters). When Larry is killed in an unemployed riot, Salb makes her final adjustment to a pitiless environment...