Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sekoto. The name meant nothing to me-and I knew I had already spent more money on my trip than I had planned-but I also knew I had to have some of his paintings. I hesitated, then sacrificed some of the dresses I had bought in Paris to buy two paintings from the gallery's owner, a M. de Cardonne...
Novelist John P. Marquand lost a legal fight to buy out the interests of six cousins in a 46-acre ancestral estate (scene of his Wickford Point) in Newburyport, Mass. Marquand, who had argued that he could not live in peace with relatives setting up summer homes all over the place, was left with two houses and only 15 acres...
Buck Duke; who died in 1925, had thought of just about everything. Counting subsequent Duke endowment funds (and previous family gifts to Trinity), the Duke benefactions amounted, in time, to more than $50 million. The only thing that money couldn't buy overnight was a solid academic reputation...
...first query was, what percentage of Coop purchases are made by members? "Seventy-two to seventy-eight percent," answered Mr. Cole, and then, as an obiter dictum, divulged what he called "the Great Mystery of the Harvard Cooperative Society:" why some people pay a dollar to join and then buy only five cents of goods...
While you are down around the square area you might drop in at the Old Howard (burlesque) or the Casino (foolthy acts). Don't buy the Nestle bars or the censored picture from Esquire unless you intend to sue for mis-representation...