Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...
...dying. Seeing him so, his companions in coin-clutching, each hoping to be made his heir, come to his bedside bearing gifts and ready to commit other offices of friendship. Volpone's assistant in deception is the smart and fluttering Mosca; together, they are reaping a rich harvest until Volpone attempts to perform rape upon a friend's wife, sent to him for no better reason. Tried in court for this offense and adjudged innocent, Volpone tries another wily and audacious rascality, one which leads to his own undoing. Mosca, always a step ahead of his miserly master...
...anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers...
...With two-thirds of the population engaged in agriculture, their production is now back at pre-War levels, and the harvest of 1927 exceeded that...
...student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs to 150,000,000; 4) Finally the bilingual and bicultural unity of Alsace-Lorraine is constantly being cemented by such newspapers as The Latest News, of Strasbourg, which is printed daily in two exactly duplicated editions, one in French...