Word: till
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alabama. Mr. Heflin is the Senator who during the last session of Congress remarked : "A Catholic bullet brought Roosevelt down. . . . If I am murdered many Catholic priests will pay the penalty. . . ." Of him Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland said: "I am afraid he will never be still till he has worn his tongue down to his tonsils." Though Senator Heflin was reported to be "in a receptive mood" the movement was considered anti-Smith rather than pro-Heflin...
Laborite Shouts: "Just you wait till the next general election...
...Borgo of San Marino, eldest and smallest republic, a group of sun-bronzed hillmen gathered, resentful. Theirs is a country without public debt, a tiny, remote upland (surrounded by Italy). There unemployment is unknown because every man either tills his ground or, if he has none to till, emigrates. So it has been in San Marino years without end. No progress, no need of progress, no desire to change the round of peaceful toil which began when St. Marinus fled the persecutions of Diocletian (A. D. 284-305), and founded a colony of refugees which has become the Republic...
...book and promptly falls in love with Saville. "Young Raphael," a Jew, in turn falls in love with her, and steals one of his father's diamonds as a present. She refuses it, and the affair is found out. Saville, however, rejects her, and falls in love with Venetia, till he finds out that Serle had once been her lover...
...Venetia marries Young Raphael, who is by this time reconciled with his father; Saville and Ysabel are living in Paris, and all the minor characters have conveniently died off. Venetia has always known that she would marry Young Raphael--so has the reader--but the interest is kept up till the end, as the characters at times become so involved with one another--that it takes a long time and even an extra paragraph...