Word: buying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last September, out in Denver, I was standing in the entrance to the Brown Palace Hotel when a small newsboy approached and asked me to buy a paper. "Buy a Post, lady." "No, thank you." I answered. "Oh, buy one," he insisted, "why not?" "Well," I jokingly answered, "I'm afraid it's a bit too yellow to interest me." "Yellow! why lady, you're color blind. This paper's green...
...then went crazy in 1917." Of death, he said: "It is the most merciful of all the most merciful provisions of nature." *He preserves interest in current affairs, including the oil market; owns control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and Western Maryland railroads, which younger men wish to buy...
...their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker Rudolph S. Hecht of New Orleans and his associates. They, in their turn, had bought out the Huyler family interests a year...
...does not have to be tremendously well-dressed to be interested in, or even to buy, a motor boat. Once any privately-owned boat over 15 feet long was called a yacht. Only millionaires, it was said, owned yachts. On board the yachts they held carnivals, debauches. This popular illusion has gone past. It is now possible to buy a 22-foot boat, finished in African mahogany, with an automobile top, side curtains, steering wheel and driving devices, for $2,500. Such a boat is the Watercar, made in four models by the Dodge Co. Or, for a little more...
...buy the babies A box at 'Abie's Irish Rose'; I hope we live to see It clo-o-se. ..." -OLD SONG...