Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main feature of Raleigh romances has been that, since none of the brides could speak English and none of the bridegrooms French, all have been conducted in a "sign language," about the efficacy of which, through an interpreter, brides and bridegrooms last week were equally enthusiastic...
...Said Mme Archambaud: "When he asked me to marry him, I understood right away. ..." Said Seaman Shapperly who plans to marry Yvonne Jeanne Gagelias before leaving France, take her back to his home in Haw River, N. C.: "I'll soon have my sweetie talking hillbilly instead of sign language." One Raleigh bridegroom, under age, wired home for permission to marry, got back a cable: "Good luck. Can't be much worse than one you had here...
...easy for Britons to see how War Secretary Hore-Belisha could devise still more startling stunts. His plan proved to be merely a scheme for persuading soldiers now completing their initial seven years' service to sign up for another 14. The inducement: a life pension of 34 shillings ($8.50) a week. To 90,000 who have recently done their seven years and left the army, the War Secretary offered the same terms if they would return to the colors. The average Tommy could not see what the fuss was about. To him the solution was crystal-clear-more...
...well that Nor graduated from Vassar without any further trouble with algebra, at 28 has just finished her interneship at the Philadelphia General Hospital. He wisely started Winkie earlier, taught her to solve algebraic equations at the age of 5 by telling her that the equal sign was like a seesaw and the numbers on both sides were like children. Father Scott coached Winkie for the geometry in her College Entrance Examinations for Bryn Mawr, in which her mark was 99. Net gave no trouble until, out of Bryn Mawr and married to a wholesale druggist, she tried...
...Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Manhattan will be abandoned in favor of a 5½-story, air-conditioned, granite and steel store now abuilding on Fifth Avenue at 39th Street. Ranking with the abandonment of price limit and the borrowing of new capital as a sign of the times, is the fact that this new store will not have even the famed red-banded front...