Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing 25 millions to buy the Washington "Triangle" below Capitol Hill, on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Botanical Gardens and the Treasury. Besides many unsightly small buildings, the "Triangle" contains Harvey's Restaurant, the Southern Railroad's headquarters, Poli's Theatre and the President Theatre, all of which may now be razed to make way for Federal structures...
...large, handsome magnanimity which Col. House never possessed. The House manner was too quiet not to be ulterior. If Mr. Jones wants to be another House, he conceals it beneath the air of a man who would under write the Democratic party as gladly as he would buy suits for a Boy Scout ball team...
...still seeking residence (TIME, Dec. 19). "Do I stay or do I get out?" asked Capone. Chief Quigg announced: "If he's just here to have a good time and doesn't start any rough stuff, I won't bother him." Rumor said that Capone would buy a Miami night club. Capone said: "I've been hounded and pushed around. . . . I'm orderly." Sunshine seekers wondered if Capone's presence in Miami would mean machine gun fights or bigger, better bootlegging...
...percentage of people who read, intelligently and patronize the best literature remains about the same. The number who buy books varies widely. In the light of this anomaly, the rejoicings of the publishers Tuesday, at the convention of their National Association, is not conclusive in the examination of America's culture. They felt, however, that the millennium is approaching, and took for their keynote the familiar word "prosperity", the prosperity that leads people to buy books if it does not make them read. The woman who in Addison's day filled her library with the worthwhile books done in wooden...
...birds at some unseen rumpus in the air dart from tree to tree, members of the New York Stock Exchange last week dashed from post to post in restless frenzy to buy, to sell. When one day was done and there had subsided the wild scream of men shouting diversely, they found that they had dealt with 3,228,300 shares...