Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collector's Item. In Boston, John F. FitzGerald hemmed & hawed before finally paying $125 for an antique desk, took it home and found $219 in one of the drawers...
Honegger's Symphony for String Orchestra was the next item on the varied program. This mighty and magnificent work is one of the finest that the Orchestra has introduced, and it deserves every one of the many performances it has received...
...billion for veterans' services and benefits-a fixed item...
...told, Pearson has been sued eight times for a total of $23,500,000. But cagey Drew Pearson, a match for most libel lawyers, brags that he has not yet paid a judgment (though his attorneys' fees are huge). He will work for hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay...
...never held sales, never bragged about markdowns. He thinks they merely show that the first price was too high. His ads plugged the store rather than special articles or prices. To get away from the item-packed type of ads, Ned went as far afield as a series of abstract illustrations. Though one of his admen grumbled, "We could have turned them upside down and run them again the following week," they brought the customers...