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The Southern Irish Loyalist Relief Association has pensioned Loyalist widows of the Royal Irish Constabulary killed in action, has helped 50,000 jobless war veterans, distributed 300 sets of second-hand clothing a week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Government has pensioned him but it looks like so long as we live near the old Life Saving Station that every time there is any cause for gittin' out the boats, Capt.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
But she's too old to be of much use now, and Frane has pensioned her.
From Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's by Walter S. Rogers
