Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus the 90 underwriters) lined up to pass it out in small lots. Less than two hours after the books were opened, the dealers had oversubscribed more than two times. Significant item: one-eighth of the issue was sold in Indiana. Next day, the new common sold over the counter at more than the offering price. The ice has been broken...
...gymnasts came back in the second canto with a burst of power, making it possible for Farrelly to put in their initial counter, to be followed by another from the stick of his teammate, Woodworth, four minutes later. But Zouck's two goals and one apiece for Anderson and B-ill Ierdardi nevertheless increased the Crimson's margin...
Forrest was a pretty careful historian and he was acquainted with the Black family. Incidentally, many years ago when I worked in a Washington drug store, the best seller at the cigar counter was an "Ohio Flat," a variation with the damndest shape you ever...
...Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations as far as they have ever gone; Theophile Gautier, "Holy ghost of the exotic-aesthetic, satanic-mystical school;" Smithers, the fantastic under-the-counter bookseller, "wonderful and depraved," who aided mightily in finishing off his beloved protege Ernest Dowson with women and drink. "Good people," declared Oscar, "exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination...
...produced, The Fifth Column told of Philip Rawlings, a U. S. newspaper man doing counter-espionage work for the Loyalists in Madrid.* Rawlings' job has got him down. He meets an American girl, rapes her in a fit of drunken violence, then falls madly in love with her. Against the pleas and warnings of his superiors, he plans to desert his job and clear out with the girl. At the last minute he is free to do so, because of a Loyalist order releasing all foreign volunteers from service. Then, from a sense of honor and devotion...