Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
Hollywood's Temptation. A favorite complaint of the writers is that Hollywood's big money is the ruination of many a promising writer. Warren, whose All the King's Men was passed up by the movies until it got the Pulitzer award (and now will fetch Warren up to $200,000), thought that "the odds are probably against a writer doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous...
...Razor blades are pretty much in demand right now," said Moische last week in his hoarse, flat voice. "Yesterday we got an order for 50,000 of them for Poland, and we are getting them together now. In Stettin they will fetch a good high price. Most everything is scarce in Poland nowadays. Take sewing-machine needles. They are much better than gold or precious stones. We sent 2,000,000 to Warsaw recently. We buy them for 2½ marks a package in the British zone, mostly through doctors who get interzonal passes easily and like to make some...
...time away, Anna Mary Robertson Moses has painted nearly 700 pictures in the last seven years. Now, at 86, "Grandma" Moses is the best-known self-taught (or "primitive") painter in the U.S., and her gay little landscapes (mostly of her upstate New York farm in the Hoosik Valley) fetch an average $1,000. "I will say," she admitted, "that I have did remarkable for one of my years and experience...
...more than $100,000-they stopped paying their bills. Their water, electricity and gas were shut off. For a while Langley tried to "make my own electricity" with an automobile generator. Then they were content to cook and heat their big house with a small kerosene stove, and fetch demijohns of water four blocks from Mount Morris Park...