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...seriously that he seemed often to blaspheme. The simple villagers, understanding, caressed him with their sweet Devon accent, but their patroness, wealthy spinster, bristled with gossip about him. Alarmed for her daughter, Mary's mother discouraged William's presence at the manor. Hurt, miserable, William withdrew...
Theodore Roosevelt began Conservation in 1907 by withdrawing 16,000,000 acres of forest land from commercial exploitation. William Howard Taft in 1909 withdrew 7,000,000 acres of oil-bearing land. In 1920 Congress passed an oil-leasing act which upset the Roosevelt-Taft policy by permitting the Secretary of the Interior to allow oil prospecting, to grant oil leases. This act spawned the oil corruption of the Harding administration. Now, in the acreage it affects, the Hoover order far outdoes Roosevelt and Taft orders combined...
This winter ingenious promoters devised a way to keep some of the U.S. gold in town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...
...Pressman Morgan withdrew, the Dominus Apostolicus raised his hand, and with a smile, said in English, "Good...
...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...