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political

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actor; actress; player; performer

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big job; great task

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capitalist; financier

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director (of a film, play, etc.)

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film world; world of cinema

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Pickford

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Elena Gerhardt

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tour; travelling around

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Winckler

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in the city; in the community

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reliance; dependence

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severe; intense; awe-inspiring; biting; bitter (cold); piercing

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to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off

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the United Kingdom and the United States; Britain and America; Anglo-American

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starry handfish (Halieutaea stellata)

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lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking

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wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)

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bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

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Jose

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to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of

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germ

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Deanna Durbin

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kaiser; emperor

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boasting of one's hometown

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ordinary person

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Dali; Turley

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to win; to gain victory

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Jeritza

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star (actor, athlete, etc.); celebrity; star (symbol); asterisk; (celestial) star

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essential; important; crucial; vital; main

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end; close

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to run away; to flee; to avoid (a question, responsibility, etc.); to evade; to win without being overtaken; to hold off the other contenders (until the finish)

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to put on weight; to gain weight; to grow fat; to get stout

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blowing repeatedly (e.g. to cool something down); huffing and puffing; puffing and panting; struggling (with work, studies, etc.); having difficulty

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dagger; dirk

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nimble

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totteringly; with tottering steps; toddling

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Madama Butterfly (opera by Puccini); Madam Butterfly

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gradually; little by little; soon; before long; here and there; scattered

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assertion; declaration; affirmation

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Warashina

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hallelujah

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Durbin

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to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished

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to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)

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the proof of the pudding is in the eating; (lit.) evidence is better than debate

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shorter way; shortcut

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extremely; greatly; truly; really; (not) that much; (not) really

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to add; to write a postscript

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