Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give thanks to God," wrote Pius IX. "who has permitted Your Majesty to fill the last days of my life with bitterness. I pray God to dispense to you his mercy, which you so much need...
...object was to give every Deputy a chance to speak for at least half a day on the budget clauses particularly interesting to his constituents. It was a grand old system-forensics in the reverberant pork barrel...
...this obvious, romantic vision into a series of pleasing, misty drawings made appealing by the use of breath-taking perspectives and powerful light effects. Practical critics observe that the scheme is ephemeral and utilizes such tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog-The City Could Be Made...
...Professional Golfers Association used to give a silver cup to the player who won their annual tournament. This year they put up a radio phonograph with a bronze plate for the winner's name. Nobody knew where the cup was. Walter Hagen had won it so often that he got careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without...
...these was: "To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of the habit: "1. Start a saloon in your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon is gone she will have $8 to put in the bank and $2 to start...