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...said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms and handing out sandwiches or "free lunch" with drinks in lieu of serving meals. The Smith record included votes to enable such establishments to continue in business. At no time, of course...
...billion dollars was represented by four men, who sailed lightheartedly on the Majestic, intent on grouse-shooting, yachting, sightseeing in the British Isles, Normandy. The four: John Pierpont Morgan; Morgan Partner Charles Steele; Andrew William Mellon; William Larimer Mellon...
Their obvious intent was to please their Governor. The obvious intent of the Herald Tribune's headline was to blackguard...
...182.That such is still the intent of Japan was shown last week when Vice President Yousuke Matsuoka of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway said : "Our policy, frankly, is peace at any price. . . . Japan will close the door to any Chinese army which seeks to carry on Civil War north of the Great Wall...
...anyone should go to college. We know that college stood primarily for education, and we knew, in a rather vague way; what was meant by education. Some of us came here to carry on the traditions of the medieval clerk, to lay aside the vanities of the world, intent upon enriching the mind with the wisdom that is found in books. Some of us came here "to live", as our present-day novelists would put it. But the majority of us came here to seek education by choosing what was most happy and wholesome in our books...