Word: collector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four factors determine choice of true pearls: size, color, symmetry, and lustre. Size, of course, is immediately dependent on the length of the collector's purse, but the other three are judged by his taste and knowledge...
...portrait has always remained in the family. But last week Baron Chesham, Lady Betty's great grandson, decided he could afford to part with it. For Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries offered more than $500,000 on behalf of an anonymous U. S. collector, record price for a Reynolds...
...stack of straw votes accumulated at a cost of perhaps $1,000,000 by the Literary Digest (weekly opinion collector) is pointed to as one of the most momentous signs of the campaign. Last week, in its fifth installment, it showed Hoover ahead in 44 of the 48 states. The totals were: Hoover, 1,593,436; Smith 910,234. The electoral votes thus far forecast were: Hoover, 488, Smith...
...nature by meddling with the struggle for existence. Hereunto the human race has advanced in wheel-dodging by leaps and bounds. It seems before the new traffic code was adopted, that within another generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost, because illegal, art, agility in the human species is in danger...
...arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good bait for the reader. Unfortunately, the pace slows down after this...