Word: bargain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Time passes. Rita waits in suspense for him to hold her to her bargain. But nothing happens. Indeed, Haggerty goes off to Mexico, cleans up on a little oil affair down there, and even appears before a Committee in Washington. Also, his wife dies in the asylum. But still nothing happens. At length, unexpectedly, he returns from Washington, asks her to marry him. She refuses haughtily, though she will abide by the letter of her bargain. He swears he knows she loves him, she swears she does not. Just to "show" him, she summons Daingerfield to the conference and calmly...
Said Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov: "England, Italy, Germany, who all have recognized Soviet Russia de jure, are capable of absorbing all our raw materials and providing all the manufactured goods we need. We didn't buy recognition. Some countries are still trying to bargain with us; others still are muttering about old debts, etc. We refuse any such negotiations or any preliminary conditions. We demand, first of all, de jure recognition. That...
...address before the convention-made by Richard M. Neistadt of San Francisco-scored the common practice of holding "anniversary" and other "bargain" sales, as a form of "super-stimulation" which fails of profit, lowers business standards, undermines public confidence. To some extent, Mr. Neistadt declared, clearance sales are a necessary part of merchandising, since no merchant can exactly forecast his requirements and is, therefore, bound to have some goods left over which can be sold at cut prices. But retailers use these goods as a nucleus only; they go out and buy other merchandise to put with them...
...less emphatic in their opposition to the plan. The negative ballots were marked with large crosses, exclamation points, and indignant comments, such as "This is a dead issue!", "America's Peace lies in a strong army and navy," and "To pay $100, 000 for this plan was a bad bargain...
...affianced his daughter to a fellow puritan. She is loved by a young gallant of the worldly party. The wedding is about to take place. Outside, the trial by fire is about to begin. The young gallant enters by a chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made, and the ordeal cannot be held...