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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still appearing in London newspapers' want-ad columns, however, are advertisements of homes in "safe areas," installed with A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) devices. Banks, insurance companies and business concerns continued to buy houses in the country for emergency offices. Latest to arrange for, although not to buy, a country place for its staff and records is Lloyd's, insurance brokers...
...London newspaper appeared an ad: "For disposal to close an estate, a set of footwear, consisting of five pairs of boots and shoes, and two pairs of stockings worn by her late Majesty Queen Victoria...
...President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer ad calendar. Not so in the new Germany. Last week the Munich show's 1939 sensation was Paul M. Padua's Leda With the Swan, equally beerotic...
...lepidissime, facetissime, venustissime, jocosissime, ridibundissime, te cum turba tua Leporum Facetiarum Venustatum locorum Risuum, ego . . . admitto ad gradum Doctoris in Litteris honoris causa,* said George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford to P. (for Pelham) G. (for Grenville) Wodehouse...
...plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third publisher said the initial success in New York was no guide, was due to novelty appeal and Pocket Books' $2,000 full-page ad in the New York Times. Pocket Books will hit quicksand, he declared, in the distribution problem...