Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel, it was all right for U. S. people, with "wealth to burn," to indulge in the "habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither earn their cost nor redeem themselves out of earnings," and sales so made are "a drug to trade...
...city. Clarence H. Mackay offered him a position in the Postal Telegraph & Cable Companies as executive vice president. This, too, was a strange job for a banker. But he accepted. The company would pay him $75,000 a year. He would study the business and discover how to earn that much...
...Glasgow. I was coming to a pharmacy, and the pharmacist said to me: 'Mr. Balieff, I was yesterday at your show, but I cannot understand in what language you spoke, and I think if you could speak English well you would earn very big money...
...Marja (Mariana) Michalska, named Gilda Gray by Sophie Tucker, was born in Krakow, Poland, and early came to the U. S. with her laborer father. She married a bartender and left him to earn her own living, which she started to do in vile "honkytonks" with sawdust on the floor-at eight dollars a week. She once related that when she went to conquer Manhattan the city so nearly conquered her that she and a girl who came with her from the west decided to kill themselves. Now she is one of the most highly paid dancers in the world...
...could a man, stranded penniless in Asbury Park, N. J., obtain the cash round-trip fare to Manhattan within a few moments, and without stealing, begging or earn...