Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect entirely; be it said, however, that her voice completely makes up for any momentary loss of prestige. Lillian Roth, in a role which has excellent possibilities, gives at best an amateurish performance. "The Vagabond King" is not a master-piece, but taken all in all, it will well repay the time, the dollar, and even the car-fare, necessary...
...perhaps for the astute Vagabond reader this is all stale news, or perhaps he has broken his glasses and would prefer just to listen. If such is the case, there follows a list of subjects which promise to repay even the trouble of getting up early on Saturday morning...
...food to the county's charitable institutions unless back bills were paid. Civil employes drew on their small savings, borrowed on their property, went to moneylenders for cash at 10% interest per month. The police department announced that it would take no steps to compel its men to repay such usurers. City and county paymasters pondered the idea of paying off employes with the tax warrants, which the banks would cash only at large discounts...
...most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country. I do not think there is much if any merit in your confessions which are nothing more or less than the threadbare plea of a clerk who robs his master and hopes to repay before his crime is discovered by backing winners at the races. Clarence Charles Hatry, I sentence you to 14 years in penal servitude...