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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale lasted for four days. The first three were spent in auctioning off the smaller, the less valuable pieces. A rich woman purchased a pair of Irish silver sauce-boats for $2,500; other collectors bought in card-tables, marble clocks, lamps, figurines, inkstands, door knockers, small sofas and chairs, portraits of French ladies whose furtive, lovely faces looked down with gay bewilderment at the solemn faces of antique dealers and U. S. ladies of fashion. On the fourth day of the sale the finest pieces were brought on the platform; the buyers, in their excitement, kept crossing their knees...
...Manhattan for the 28th National Automobile Show. The motor makers had spoken well, well in advance. President W. S. Knudsen of Chevrolet Motor Co. presented the new line of Chevrolets; Chairman Roy Dike-man Chapin* of Hudson-Essex had made the first offer of a 6-cylinder four-door sedan to sell in the $800 class?the Essex at $795. President Edward G. Wilmer of Dodge Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros.' new 6-cylinder model...
...various manufacturers. There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown. Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase. Yet price considered with size, as arranged in the following tables, might give some clue. Because every motor manufacturer produces a four-door sedan or a model very like one, the data pertains to that type...
...somewhat of a surprise to us this morning in McKinlock Hall when we gathered in our shoes, placed trustfully outside the door and found them quite unpolished," asserted F. J. Nugee, assistant headmaster of Radley School to a CRIMSON scribe. "Our boots have been getting rather more and more disgraceful since we came to this country. No time and place to have them furbished up, you know...
...England, you know, even in the colleges, we have fellows to attend to the shoes placed outside the bedroom door. It's a great saving of time. Wonder you haven't thought of it here," he commented...