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Palmyra October 23d 1830 Dear Sir Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can—Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse [] of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day ...
As the guests are not aware of the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 back and keep $2 as a tip for himself, and proceeds to do so. As each guest got $1 back, each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop kept $2, which when added to the $27, comes to $29.
The Vietnamese rat catchers would capture rats, sever their tails, then release them back into the sewers so that they could produce more rats. [ 8 ] Experiencing an issue with feral pigs , the U.S. Army post of Fort Benning (now named Fort Moore) in Georgia offered hunters a $40-bounty for every pig tail turned in. [ 9 ] Over the course of the ...
You lent money to a friend or family member and they haven’t paid you back. Since you thought this was a short-term arrangement — and definitely not a gift — you feel like it’s time to ask ...
sic et non: thus and not: More simply, "yes and no". sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc: we gladly feast on those who would subdue us: Mock-Latin motto of The Addams Family. sic infit: so it begins: sic itur ad astra: thus you shall go to the stars: From Virgil, Aeneid book IX, line 641. Possibly the source of the ad astra phrases.
Spoken aloud in some British public (paid) schools by pupils to warn each other of impending authority. cave canem: Beware of the dog: Earliest written example is in the Satyricon of Petronius, circa 1st century C.E. caveat emptor: let the buyer beware: The purchaser is responsible for checking whether the goods suit his need.
He argued restaurant operators “don’t have the margin for that.”
The raids continued; and in 991, Æthelred paid the Danes in silver to stop raiding and to go away. The Danes thought this an excellent idea – and returned year after year to demand more. In Kipling's words: "if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane".