Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The present threat is of greater danger to the peace of Washington. Sir Esme Howard himself has voluntarily offered to set up a zone of local prohibition in the British embassy. And of course such an example of good-will from one power might necessitate similar action by others in...
We can see how the great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time...
"If it is near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have...
The American straphangers, of course. Where bond issues reach into thousands of millions, the banking fraternity will whoop it up in glee, of course. What if the wary investor steers clear of such bonds, having in mind fresh cancellations of German bonds 5c per $100? There are plenty of estates...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he...