Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twice-a-monthly asses...
Death came kindly last week to Dr. Hermann Müller, the Socialist Deputy who "threw away his career" by signing the Treaty of Versailles for Germany, then fooled everyone by twice becoming Chancellor of the German Republic...
...made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder is in any doubt, he will find my full name printed three times in the lining...
Died. Herman Müller, 54, twice (1920, 1928) Chancellor of the German Republic, a signer of the Treaty of Versailles;. after a gall-bladder operation; in Berlin...
...founder of Fortnum & Mason was one Cornelius Fortnum, faithful servitor of Queen Anne. For years he held the unique monopoly of being allowed to take and sell the Court's old candles, for Queen Anne would never allow the same candle to be lit twice. In 1710 he opened his shop and began dealing in delicacies. Later Fortnum & Mason added shoes to its food department, then clothes. Swiftly grew its prestige. Gladstone and Disraeli were steady customers. From Fortnum & Mason Queen Victoria ordered 250 Ib. of beef tea to be shipped to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Queen Mary...