Word: straint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ease at once. He treated me as if he were my father indeed. He rested his elbow on the large table between us and spoke to me in soft paternal tones. So I rested my elbow on the table also and answered without fear or re-straint." The truth of the Mayor's description became more and more obvious as bits of the conversation were related. Said the Pope: "But you are a very young man to be Mayor of such a large metropolis!" "But I am not as young as I look," said the Mayor...
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