Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a 14-year-old handmaiden of the Lord stood beside a ripe ecclesiastic, her head upraised and look intent, locks flung back, red lips apart...
...With the intent of maintaining existing athletic relations between Harvard and Yale in their essential integrity, and with mutual confidence in the cordial spirit as well as in the actual rules controlling such relations, it is mutually agreed...
...controlling shares owned by John D. Rockefeller Sr. were sold to the B. & O. A 25-year-old ordinance of the City of Baltimore, which once owned the Western Maryland, provides that this road be sold to no railroad that has main terminals in Baltimore or Philadelphia. The intent has been to provide several railroad channels for traffic to the Port of Baltimore. This may handicap the present sale...
...father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That was who he was, Fred G. Bonfils; $800,000; Napoleon's cousin. Money! Power! Ambition! He could...
...divests himself of virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover on his curly noddle, fixes an intent gaze on Row M, chants mystically, "Life is all a great joke...