Word: token
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the German owners presented Messrs. Daugherty and Miller with $391,000 in Liberty bonds as a little token of appreciation...
...admirable for posterity, as a pious widow should. Gonfal of Naimes is told to go southward and does so, becoming a champion of misadventure among the Transcendentalists of Inis Dahut, enjoying the favors of their dark queen, Morvyth, while younger, less sensible men scour the earth for some marvelous token that will win her hand...
...elation not to be suppressed. Gravely he informed the royal messenger that the Nambas would obey as always the Prince Regent's will. They would unbar their gates, allow their children to romp once more in the sunshine. They would resume the normal lives of loyal Japanese. In token of their entire release from all humiliation, they would abandon the irredeemably besmirched name of Namba, assume that of Kurokawa...
...laughter ; Nor of shop-thronged streets; nor the sharp hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows shed on purple hills...
...friends now thank fortune that her maiden novel is no hail-and-farewell. She married Albert Hoskins of Philadelphia last January, but with no Lancian translation of hymen vincit omnia. On the contrary, Husband Hoskins will set her free for the literary career that she has, by this gay token, so successfully begun...