Word: warn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke d'Alengon.) For you are brother to the King of France, who is childless, and I am so advanced in years that you can hardly hope to have a child by me, and my doctors warn me that if I have a child I shall die in childbed, and that is out of the question. This apart, I may live yet so many years that if after my death you married again you might not be able to beget children...
...police request the Harvard management to warn automobilists who leave their cars not to leave them in charge of the numerous boys who offer to "mind you car" as many thefts have occurred in this...
...wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this country and its peace-loving people into an unnecessary war, Sir," he said, " you will pay for it with your head and your throne. The blood of the people will be upon your hands and the judgment of God upon your...
Georges Taupin, a young man, self-admittedly an anarchist, strode into the office of L' Action Française, Royalist journal, and fired a revolver shot into the ceiling. " Don't be afraid," he cautioned the staff, " I have come from the anarchists to warn you." He was then overpowered and arrested. His action caused a great sensation in Paris, as it was only last January that Germaine Berthon, also an anarchist, killed M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Française. She intended to kill Léon Daudet, proprietor of the paper...
...stipend of a Rhodes Scholarship is normally 300 pounds a year, but until further notice scholars will receive a bonus of 50 pounds in addition, making a total of 350 pounds per annum. The Rhodes trustees warn candidates that even this sum is not sufficient to meet the increase in prices, and that men will need to supplement their scholarship to the extent, on an average, of about 50 pounds a year...