Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What course must the Senior pursue in order to get rid of his household effects in the most efficient way? The natural impulse is to take them to the man for whom they seem to be logically intended--the second-hand furniture dealer. And this thought-would surely be uppermost in the minds of those who are leaving, were it not that Economics A had so forcibly impressed upon them the enormous advantage of doing away with the middleman. So another course suggests itself: let the departing Senior dispose of his furniture directly to the Sophomore...
Books are rapidly being thrown into the discard as the final examinations draw to a close. It is now that the weary student sells them to the second hand dealer for a mere trifie--by the pound, it would seem--and invests the proceeds in something far more refreshing. In the ecstasy of finishing his last blue book, he looses his sense of values and treats his books like old clothes...
...business in the city. He discussed polities in his advertisements of cheaper onlong. If this sounds more like a musical comedy plot than an actual occurrence, his campaign methods will seem like pure farce. No one but his wife aided him in his campaign, his advertisements as a vegetable dealer were the only means by which he acquainted the citizens of his existence: a few days before the election he began holding meetings to which only women were admitted; and finally conducted several public gatherings, in which he imitated the mannerisms of Billy Sunday, waving his arms and shouting. "Here...
...dutiable at 33 1-3 percent; until a few years ago, let us remember, books not bound in leather were rarely printed in England. But the absurdity reaches the height in the last provision, which requires an American valuation. Who is to make the appraisal? Not an experienced book-dealer--and even for him it would be difficult enough;--but the ordinary customs officer, along with the tea and tobacco, rice and rugs, that daily pass his inspection. What is he to base the value on--selling price in this country, value to the dealer, or literary value...
...Hale Points out, the play could be strengthened in many places. The audience might be made to understand a little sooner the feelings that influenced Dagmar to turn to the gross furniture dealer; they might be permitted perhaps to appreciate the character of the plot a little sooner. It is almost as if the author developed his conception of the characters as he wrote the play. The characterization is never inconsistent; the author does not contradict himself but he seems to be so afraid that he will that the characters remain unformed until well on in the story...