Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first touring variety show into Saigon in the spring of 1964, and a year later formed the World Wide Talent agency with retired U.S. Chief Petty Officer George Albrecht. "The Vietnamese acts were terrible," Tomasi recalls, and he began flying out regularly to Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo to fetch in outside talent. Today, W.W.T. handles about half of the paid professional entertainment appearing at U.S. military clubs; last year the agency booked 14 acts from the outside (paying them a normal top of $1,000 for five shows a week), was even able to peddle 25 Vietnamese bands, four...
...their rarity alone, Apostle spoons stir the imagination. The Clark Institute's set cost around $30,000; another, inferior set is expected to fetch $15,000 at New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries later this month. The spoons have sculptured knops at the end of their handles, portraying the saints. Each Apostle bears his symbol, or the tools of his martyrdom: St. John holds a cup symbolic of the poisoned wine he was ordered to drink; St. Bartholomew is shown with a knife to signify his being flayed alive; St. Simon carries the saw that sundered...
...want to kindle old memories. He returned to Cambridge, visited his old workshop in the Cavendish Laboratory, and dined with the dons at his old college, Trinity. Realizing that he had no academic gown, the required dress for evening meals in college, he asked a college servant to fetch one for him. The man brought back the very robe that Kapitsa had left behind 32 years...
...with $10,000 bills. Once when he was visiting Dallas, the president of the Security National Bank appealed to Green to help him stanch a run on the bank. Green counted 20 ten-grand notes out of his wallet and then sent a bellboy to his hotel suite to fetch his valise, which was on the bed. From that, he produced 30 additional $10,000 bills, then sent the still-bulging satchel back to his suite with instructions to the bellboy to put it in the closet, where it would be safe...
...this book," says the new King Korn Stamp Co.'s catalogue, "you will find a wide selection of the finest gifts from America's leading manufacturers." For example, 5 3/5 books of stamps will fetch you a Gooney-Cycle unicycle, five books, a Kidee Krome table and chair set. And for just 1,975 books you may have, from one of America's leading manufacturers indeed, Rice Threshing by Thomas Hart Benton, 76. Did putting his work up for stamps bother the crusty Missouri artist? Not a bit, said Benton, who was paid around...