Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changa ma music? Every year. I keepa all new pieces in ma machine. She goodda machine, too. Buy her in New York long time ago. Try crank her. See, very easy," but the CRIMSON man disliked the task, and released his grip thus abruptly ending the syncopated tune of "Yes Sir, that's my Baby", one of Joe's latest "hits...
Cruel, a Berlin manufacturer of typewriters used the incident as an advertisement, urged the public to buy his machines and write notes in uniform, unrevealing characters...
...TIME. Jan. 14). These men will not sit for the U. S. since officially the administration is not concerned. Technically, the European Powers will revise the Dawes Plan of their own motion and volition. The two U. S. citizens will merely advise, and the U. S. public will merely buy some millions of dollars' worth of reparations bonds, if they are issued...
...took a train for Franklin, La., Friday night. The ticket cost $6 and I had a little money left. I got hungry on the train and had to buy sandwiches, which were entirely too thin to satisfy me. Some one met me in a car and took me to the Criminal Court room. I was told I could sleep there...
Most people buy books to read. Literary people buy them to reread. Bibliophiles buy them to see, touch and to ponder their histories. Shrewd men buy them to sell. More and more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type...