Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Belluzzo was in Sardinia on a tour of inspection last week, when informed by cable, of his "rotation" and peremptorily ordered to return to Rome. Count Volpi left his office in the Ministry of Finance for the last time without a word to subordinates...
Each of the rumors thus reducing each other to absurdity was cabled by a U. S. or British correspondent of standing. Spanish newspapers, censored, added by their mumness to spread of scandal by word of mouth...
...gifts for men, particularly if they are inclined to do a very little friendly betting, a gold piece the exact size and gold content of a $20 gold currency piece, even to being milled around the edge. Instead of the insignia, however, there appears enameled on one side the word 'Head' and on the other 'Tail...
...obscure little Maribor, on the Jugoslav frontier lives Schoolteacher Polsjchak. Word went round that he knew strange things; that he had studied tuberculosis and cancer; that he had even cured neighbor Kretschnik's wife who was about to die of cancer, and that other one, old man Melchnikoff, who had a burning in his side like fire...
Last week, Tunney paused in his training at Speculator, N. Y., to say that he expects to administer a knock-out to Heeney. Word flew, as it often does, to Heeney at Rumson Farm Kennels in Fairhaven, N. J. The Irishman from New Zealand snorted: "Well, blime me if that doesn't take the royal cake for gall. . . . The papers are the only place Tunney knocks out anybody. Why, he couldn't stop Dempsey when the old Manassa...