Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Batavia, N. Y., Elmer Schulz, four, found his father's shotgun in the kitchen, aimed it at his mother, said, "I'm going to shoot you, Mama," pulled the trigger and killed her. Said he later: "I bang Mama...
...wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola came to the island, Mabel's degeneration became complete. Two of the children died, Mabel died, Joe Pete went away to school, learned how to help his Ojibway people, helpless before the white man's legal wiles...
With Paris, never his home town, Louis had no sympathy and less patience. Once he made a speech to some learned scholars of Paris' famed Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When...
...saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that...
...Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan was unwilling to wait two years more. Said the New York Evening Post: From 50 to 100 of the obstructing leases are held by speakeasies...