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...as a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was a spy or rather just a self-promoter. Regardless of which is true, Le Queux brings us a story of intrigue and espionage that travels across Europe in the true spirit of a good mystery. There are shootings, burglaries, romances, escapes from prisons, and...

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... 1919, the National Prohibition Act, popularly known as the Volstead Act (after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead), was enacted, providi...

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...e singer’s name. She made her way to her sisters. Adela was ordinarily the promoter, 23 George Meredith Cornelia the sifter, and Arabella the directo... ...e had not lost spirit, albeit condemned to serve amongst an inferior race, promoters of discord. Just as the third play was opening, some commotion wa...

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...r Charlotte, nor Mr. Brand, who, among these excellent people, was a great promoter of reflection and aspiration, frankly adverted to it as an extensi...

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...teroom for whole half days to get but a nod and a word from the great man. Promoters, inventors, small fin- anciers, agents, manufacturers, even “cray...

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..., if Marie Antoinette had made the unwise mistake of not being born. The world owes a great deal to the French Revolution, and consequently to its two...

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...of the most important witnesses at that trial, but he was one of the chief promoters of the prosecution. That affair divides to this day the arrondiss...

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.... He even wanted to give away all he had, to the poor. Y et he was a great promoter of industry, and he knew perfectly that he must keep his goods and...

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...inst it, shrinking from no unpopularity, and inveighing boldly against the promoters of it, and so urging and constraining the multitude, that, contra...

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... by using my fame-and my name. Since I was a celebrity and an experienced promoter, I attracted attention to the problem and the solutions available...

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...t, they were a little suspicious of my THE POWER IN GIVING intentions. (Promoters don't have the best images.) 121 I made it clear to them I would...

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...uly according to Aristotle, not only old-age, but each imbecility, is the promoter and motive of covetousnesse. That is something, but it is a remed...

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...layed with them. M. de Noailles and his clever wife were the inventors and promoters of these interior pleasures, for the purpose of in- truding thems... ...The Chief-President of the Parliament, I should observe, was the principal promoter of these sentiments. He was the bo- som friend of M. and Madame du... ...he eve of bursting, and of which the Ambassador of Spain was the principal promoter. His Royal Highness alleged the pressing reasons which had induced...

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...ereof? 4 In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the promoters of that build- ing. 5 But the eye of their God was upon the an- c... ...as though he had incited He- liodorus to do these things, and had been the promoter of evils: 2 And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, ...

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...ough he laughs at all their teaching. They’ll take gold plate from company promoters and rent from in- sanitary houses. But if a man is poor and doesn...

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...g boarder, shortly afterwards made his appearance, and proved a surprising promoter of the conversation. Mr. Calton was a superannuated beau—an old bo...

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...ymen WITHOUT KNOWING HOW, Captain William Dobbin found him- self the great promoter, arranger, and manager of the match between George Osborne and Ame...

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...suffer himself to incur the dishonor, nor him to be reputed the author and promoter of so odious a measure. Octavius, we are told, did seem a little s... ...ce made him for his daily expenses was fixed to nine obols only. The chief promoter of these affronts was Publius Nasica, who openly abandoned himself... ...withdrew with all his forces from the camp, although he had been the chief promoter of the war. The Parthians, encouraged by their success, came up to...

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...ir virtual extinction. I ask, Does no action at common law lie against the promoters of such enormous abuses? O thou fervent reformer,—whose fatal tre...

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...was to meet a group of earnest people at the house of one of the great local promoters. Olive would whisk Verena off to these appointments directly af...