Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of a pre-inflation dollar. Oranges cost three centavos (less than one penny). Avocado pears cost the same. The staples, black beans and pink rice, cost usually 20 centavos a kilo, which is more than two pounds. That's 2½? a pound. And if you've eaten black bean paste with chili sauce and Mexican pink rice, you know you don't have to feel sorry for anyone who makes it his daily fare...
...mother was a lady like yours you will allow, And you may have a sister who needs protection now- I've come to this great city to find a brother dear- And you wouldn't dare insult me, Sir, If Jack were only here...
...weighty matters, Ambassador Saito ordered another round of highballs. When someone asked him if he were not the world's youngest Ambassador he replied: "I am not so young. Dino Grandi [Italian Ambassador to Great Britain] beard and all, is far younger than I. . . . I've been dissipating all my life: whiskies and sodas every afternoon - all afternoon...
...ve been in the doorkeeping business most of my life," Campbell continued in his broad Irish brogue. "I tried clerical work for a while, but I didn't have the brains. I've worked at a lot of the hotels in New York: the Ambassador, Pierre's, the Mayfair. But where I made the most money was at Rudy Vallee's Night Club. I could make $80 a week there tips you know. And my, the people who used to go there! I used to have to put them in taxis myself most of the time. Of course...
...course of the discussion, one resourceful professor hit upon the idea of making it a degree "with distinction" Instead of with the customary honors. The solution seemed to please everyone. Just as it was on the verge of being voted on, a classicist Interposed an objection. "You've got to translate it into Latin," he pointed out, "and when you translate 'with distinction' it becomes 'cum laude'." The faculty gave it up and decided to leave the name but change the requirements...