Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Avenir declared: "Borah hates France with a sort of sadic frenzy." One is a sadist who takes pleasure, ipso facto, in inflicting pain. * Last week John Allen Sickel, Manhattan caviar dealer, bet his wife that he could name all the state capitals in the U. S. He won. Curious newspapermen wondered how many other citizens could duplicate Mr. Sickel's feat. TIME readers desirous this week of making bets similar to Mr. Sickel's may settle their bets by consulting p. 9, where all state capitals are listed...
Secretly Married. John Hays Hammond Jr., 38 (smart son of a smart father), famed electrical inventor, to Mrs. Irene E. Felton Reynolds, divorced wife of a Gloucester, Mass., shoe dealer...
...Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene was Christie's. An elegant company, in satins and swallowtails, lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen...
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...dealers were going to sell the new Willys-Overland "Whippet," a low-slung coursing car designed to make 55 miles an hour and 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England...