Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought of himself. It was literally true, Cobb of The World was thinking of the world. He said to me : "Theodore Roosevelt, succeeding to William McKinley as President, fell heir to an almost perfect party machine, which never in his time failed to function. Today Republican leadership is bankrupt, rent by volt.' " faction, oppressed by mutterings of revolt...
...first exhibition held by rising artists of the very-much-younger generation closed successfully with $25 assets. The sons and daughters of the New York artist colony at Wood-stock-in-Catskills decided to rent a gallery, hand in their own original work and charge admission, the sum cleared to go toward a new school building. "I don't s'pose we'd have done it if we'd known what a job it was going to be," said the 10-year-old President. There were some hundreds of examples, largely pen and pencil, of surrounding...
...white-haired, grey-bearded professor giving a dissertation on Sologub. Then up jumped a poet symbolist; told how much better he was than Sologub, recited one, two, three, four of his poems; started to recite the fifth, but the audience had had enough. Shrieks shrill and roars raucous rent the atmosphere-the poet sadly sat down...
...Republic of Colombia was to receive gold to the extent of $10,000,000 and $250,000 a year rent for a strip of land covering the proposed canal route. At the last moment the Colombian Senate, undoubtedly hoping to get more money, refused to ratify the agreement with...
Garden ef Weeds. A collection of hireling hoydens from the chorus rent but their love to a promiscuous promoter of Wall Street. On his estate at Asbury Park, N.J., he gives jamborees which scandalize the neighborhood. It is this millionaire's proud boast that he can make any Woman subservient to his lecherous leanings by muffling her good impulses in the mortal coil of evil environment...