Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liquor. Last fortnight Chairman D. H. Hanna of the Ontario Liquor Commission saddened thirsty U. S. citizens by stating that tourists permits to buy liquor would not be granted to "excursionists," that "American visitors" expecting "big blowouts" in Ontario would be "disappointed" (TIME, June...
...this article that he had, and wronged the Library by permanently destroying the value of an expensive reference work. Copies of odd volumes, still less of stray pages, of the Britannica are not to be procured from the publishers, and cannot be picked up at the booksellers. To buy a new set, to reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind the volume, will be a serious expense, yet the Library must in some way repair the loss. Any course of action or any expression of opinion that will...
...story was treated in the U. S. press like the confession of a man who publicly admits that he is going to buy a rifle and expects some day to practice on his neighbors. The real story was that Signor Mussolini spoke as might a sturdy householder who said: "There are burglars in this neighborhood and so I am going to keep a pistol under my pillow...
...John H. Weaver, student of art and capable Manhattan businessman came a few months ago a happy thought. Why not teach the public to buy real paintings instead of reproductions by showing them the capable work of artists they can afford to buy? After consultations with artists famed and otherwise, the Artists' Cooperative was formed...
...result, as in the case of Author Halliburton's The Royal Road to Romance (around the world on $40), is the biggest kind of super-romantic money's worth that "self-satisfied people, caught in the ruts of convention and responsibility," can buy anywhere currently...