Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significance. He said that he had sold a "valuable saddle' horse" (i.e. The Senator) to Mr. Stephenson and that the $2,500 was in payment for the horse and accessory equipment. Investigators pursued the case and found evidence that Mr. Stephenson had purchased the horse at no great bargain...
...with the solemn pronouncement: "It is something that Dayton will not soon forget." Last week, with the incident five days old, a Dayton department store-one of several that had "played up" the Lindbergh visit in previous self-advertisements-proved Mayor McDonald right by advertising a "spirit of economy" bargain sale with the sarcastic legend: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
...sides would have laughed at such imperative mediation by the Government a few months ago. Last week they pondered well M. Tardieu's plan, to which he added the bait of a promise that the Government would raise the tariff on coal. Soon the compromise was indited, the bargain between miners and owners sealed, the strike averted. Frenchmen began, last week, to pay less for coal- about $2.50 less...
...during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this year was the type who spends thought, cash and attention on clothes. The investments they made on gowns brought them more in money and material comfort-to say nothing of happiness-than the thrifty basement bargain-hunter could hope to lay aside in her whole life...
...tread upon his cloak in order to avoid soiling her shoes. Such regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father. The two young people escape by clinging to a log rushed down the valley on a swollen stream...