Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became acquainted with an Englishman and a Scotchman, and started with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...
Said Premier Poincare in Paris: "The Government has now held the franc stable at approximately 25 to the dollar and 123 to the pound since the first of the year (TIME, Jan. 3). ... The Government will do everything in its power to maintain this stability, and will continue to buy and sell francs at this rate until further notice...
Utterances: "Hunger, cold rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than them all. ... If you have but 50c and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar...
...want to buy a dead body?" was the forthcoming question in a business-like feminine voice...
...buy you teddy-bears and geese; Come, Peaches, can you care for these? A puppy dog, an alligator-- I'm just a lovable old satyr...