Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete commercial autonomy within the framework of the Plan. The Dawes Plan safeguards the Allies against German default by creating a virtual mortgage on German wealth (especially railways) in favor of the Allies. The Agent General of Reparations, at present Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, resides in Berlin as a sort of super-trustee. Under him is a comprehensive system of boards to adjust constantly outcropping problems, such as those of transfer...
...unfortunately not easy, and I do not even know that it is possible, to put this sort of appreciation and thankfulness into words. I will only reassert how strongly I feel...
...were written, summing him up, pointing out his contributions to society, remarking on his greatness. There was some dissecting, much praising. But there was none of the soft sentimentality which so often surrounds the death of a man in the public eye. He had been too strong for that sort of emotion...
Here comes a pause in the story, which seems difficult to explain. For it has since become known that the Lampoon dined on some sort of combination between roast pig and truffled turkey. The original menagerie, however, were obviously alive this morning; especially to the ears of any who may be unfortunate enough to reside in that section of the Gold Coast Bob Lampoon, when interviewed at a late hour last night, declared that a bird in the hand was not always worth two in the bush. There might be some clue there...
...River. Before arrived then Fish Market came. Do not paused. Advance away for River but not until River. Then you saw nice sign say so Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker 179. That was the places my shop. Thanks you entered insides purchase me this time." Cosmopolites had seen the same sort of thing done by fawning Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian...