Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, it has sold $100,000,000 of ornaments, $65,500,000 during the past 20 years. Last week it was being dissolved. Every piece of jewelry in the bronze and black-faced store at Fifth Avenue and 46th Street was being sold-like so many baubles in a bargain basement-for one-third off. There was a necklace of perfectly matched pearls, the finest piece in the store, to be sold for $250,000, with the sale's one-third to be deducted...
...expected that Colonel Thompson's report will urge, in effect, the striking of a bargain with the Philippines which will make them more restive but no more independent. Probable Filipino advantages to be recommended are: 1) Transfer of U. S. supervision from the War Department to a special bureau in one of the civil departments; 2) Replacement of Governor General Leonard Wood's "Cavalry Cabinet" of military advisers by U. S. civilian departmental experts; 3) Internal self-government with an elective Filipino Governor General to be allowed within a decade, provided the Filipinos behave themselves in the meantime...
...therefore credible that Christian women, such as the Armenian mother is known to be, would bargain their most precious jewels (babies), to dogs (Turks) whom they would not hesitate to destroy; for gain ? Hardly...
...broadly founded though it is for literary purposes, is composed of beings that are not very human. Daniel and Thane Pardway may have been human beings (their author says he drew them from originals) but in this book they are seen as animated cash-registers-Daniel in his big bargain-sale Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts...
...years, and won him a court paintership under Louis XV. Up and down went the bids, three-quarters of a million, eight-tenths, nine-tenths, the whole of a million francs (approximately $123,123). There the bidding paused, hesitated; the hammer fell. "Parbleu!" cried French dealers. "But what a bargain!" Before the War a similar De Latour brought thrice the price...