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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then John Markle rose from his seat, kept in his mouth his fat cigar, bowed slightly to the 400 luncheon guests, uttered no word, sat down...
...from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas and 18 of the kind of men who accompany such women." The profession of dressmaker, "modiste" for the French, and "modista" for the Spanish, has been claimed so often by these women that the word has been taken into the language locally as having, in a more limited degree, the meaning of "madame to which the French journalists objected. You may also be interested in knowing that in "white slave" circles the Panama Canal is referred to as "the sieve," and "slaves" are known...
...Just one word. You have told, your readers how the Duchess of York, after leaving her one-year-old baby in London, has been dancing the Charleston until even rough sailors on the Renown have picked up from her a dance worse than any they knew before...
...word, all bargaining between employer and employed will be collective by compulsion, with the people (represented by the State) as compulsory arbiter...