Word: repossessing
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...Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There are also a frantic and shirtless stage manager, a great penultimate fake deathbed scene which keeps Miller and almost everyone else from being taken to jail for fraud and forgery. Critical consensus...
...approached his goal, a pressgang from His Majesty's Navy caught him, and it was seven years before he was discharged. Although he still thought of Sarah, he "was too old to undertake any more love pilgrimages" and the desire he "at one time felt to repossess her was now softened into a curiosity to know what had become of her." But he never found out as he settled down, married, dodged more pressgangs, was destitute when a kindly bookbinder persuaded him to record his story...
Same day in Memel Territory, which Germany aspires to repossess from Lithuania, the District Governor ordered all able-bodied men who received military training last year to "report for re-examination...
...around the turnip-shaped top of South America and up the River Amazon (TIME, Feb. 6) lay anchored all last week off Tabatinga, a Brazilian port only five miles from Leticia, the port which Peruvian irregulars seized from Colombia last September and which Colombia intends to repossess...
More serious trouble was presented by the Treasury's attempt to repossess Government property on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, three blocks west of the Capitol. Wholesale warehouses, a cheap hotel, automobile showrooms, a Chinese restaurant and an undertaking shop occupied the row of old ugly brick buildings on this site. The U. S. had bought up the land as part of its plan to beautify the Federal City (TIME. May 6, 1929). The plot was to be converted into a park. Wreckers had knocked the walls out of the buildings when the B. E. F. began to arrive...