Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House he evaded Conservative queries: "So much has been done that I want to tell the Honorable Gentlemen all about it as soon as possible...
...Gentlemen, Gentlemen," stormed the Sejm's fussy Sergeant-at-arms, "this is unconstitutional! This is invasion...
...amazing reaction, gentlemen!" said he. "A few more days like this one and M. Clémenceau may be considered out of immediate danger. Unfortunately the nights are very much harder on him than the days. Perhaps in your stories it would be safer for you to use the word 'Armistice' than 'Victory...
...years Thurston, successor to the late great Kellar, has been extracting rabbits from the collars of old gentlemen's overcoats, smashing expensive watches, bisecting young girls, making them disappear, float in the air. He has had three challenges (in foreign countries) from young men whom he humiliated in public by demonstrating that they concealed a duck on their persons. He began with $00.25, and now has a home on Long Island. In this book he tells his adventures as a showman...
...Garden, which is situated at the corner of Garden and Linnaean Streets, Cambridge, was established in 1807 by a number of public-spirited gentlemen who endowed a professorship of Natural History. The seven acres which form the present Garden were laid out in 1807 by Professor William Daudrige Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income...