Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then it was unnecessary to take the book or the lock of hair. The hex was broken; the old devilish witch was dead...
...book transactions of this magnitude it would be difficult to estimate the elements of litterateur, bibliophile and businessman in each buyer or seller. Certain it is that shrewd business instinct prevails to a large degree. People were aghast at the prices, at the possibilities of further increase. They pondered investment in books as against investment in stocks. They had good reason...
Married. Mr. Tifft, paper box manufacturer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and one Ruth Esther Petersonn, of Fryburg, Me.; in South Berwick, Maine. A parental tiff over names left Mr. Tifft first nameless; he remains so, is listed in the telephone book as TIFFT...
Henry Ford in his new book, My Philosophy of Industry, writes: "In common decency the liquor generation should be allowed to die in silence. Its agonies should not be the constant topic of Ameri can journals...
...late Isadora Duncan left some $25,000 worth of real estate in France and the rights to her book, My Life. Her will was filed last week in Manhattan by her adopted daughter, Irma. It had been written six years ago in Moscow, just before she left by airplane for Paris on a honeymoon. At the chance suggestion of a friend, she scribbled it in pencil on a page torn out of a little notebook. It said: "This is my last will and testament. In case of my death I leave my entire property to my husband, Serge Yessenin...