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She paid above-market estimates when purchasing jewels from the estate of Dowager Empress Marie of Russia and paid almost three times the estimate when buying the family's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, the mistress of her late brother Prince Francis.
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She finished her hamburger and drank her coffee and paid her check ; ;
She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.
She writes that he has been a paid consultant for many years for ARCO, ExxonMobil, Shell, Sun Oil Company, and Unocal, and that SEPP has received grants from ExxonMobil.
She was paid off in 1997 and opened as a museum ship in 2001.
She moved to a paid position in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in December 1995.
She was criticized early in his first term largely due to her decision to replace the White House china, despite it being paid for by private donations.
She paid very close attention to the details, something she had always done in her husband's life.
She later had her own series on a radio show sponsored by a local restaurant that paid her a " salary " in food.
She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for blacks in the " colored " section.
She conducts him to one of the " paid avoidance areas " in California, where people are paid to do without the full panoply of modern technology, as an alternative to spending billions to rebuild infrastructure after the earthquake.
She was paid ten dollars.
She moved the family to a smaller house, resigned from the Board of Guardians, and was given a paid position as Registrar of Births and Deaths in Chorlton.
She said that Shaw saved The Sting since no other actor would accept the part, that Paul Newman hand delivered the script to Shaw in London in order to ensure his participation, and that he had to be paid an extremely high salary.
She auditioned for George Cukor's stock theater company, and although he was not very impressed, he gave Davis her first paid acting assignment anyway — a one-week stint playing the part of a chorus girl in the play Broadway.
She became the highest paid performer in the history of the West End up to that time.
She paid 25 cents a lesson for piano instruction for him.
She paid Berman $ 20, 000 for his work.
She spent nine-and-a-half hours recording her part, and was paid $ 380 by Burtt for her services.
She is said to have derived her name Aegle, " Brightness ," or " Splendor ," either from the beauty of the human body when in good health, or from the honor paid to the medical profession.
" She gave him an " apartment " in the recently renovated Hôtel de Guise — strong evidence that Charpentier was not a paid domestic who slept in a small room in the vast residence, but was instead a courtier who occupied one of the new apartments in the stable wing.
She was paid off in 1814, and broken up in 1861, in Plymouth.
She voluntarily paid for all necessary supplies for nine cases.
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Murder, She Wrote also brought in more money to the town due to increased tourism — by some estimates, around $ 2, 000, 000.
She and when
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.
She entreated me to see a doctor, and when I refused, brought one out to see me.
She was still laughing when I grabbed her and started rolling her on the bed.
She stayed too late, and when she left, it was dark and time to go home and cook supper for her husband.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.
She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.
She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.
She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.
She made General Burnside's horse's belly do so funny when it was upside down.
She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.
She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.
She retreated by leaving the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and there.
She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.
She thought royal status might come her way when, while she was still in Rome, she met Pulley Bey, a personal procurer to King Farouk of Egypt.
She was on the junk, and they slide fast when that happens.
She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??
She may well be incapacitated by it when she is confronted with present and future alternatives -- e.g., whether to prepare primarily for a career or for the role of a homemaker ; ;
She was just waking up when we found her at the garage ''.
She had swished away, she had been gone for a long time probably when Sarah suddenly realized that she ought to stop her, pour out the coffee, so no one would drink it.
She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.
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