Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French novels have been published in the U. S., and at one period in 1931-32 translations of them appeared almost every other month. That the reserve of untranslated Colette novels was rapidly being exhausted, many an enthusiast realized with regret last week when the latest item in this Frenchwoman's list appeared...
Parade. First item on the program was the parade. The Olympic Bell tolled and into the stadium marched 5,000 athletes. Leading, because their country started the Olympic Games in 776 B. C., were the Greeks. Next, at the head of the German alphabetical list were the Egyptians. Loudest applause went to Austrians who gave the Nazi salute, to goose-stepping Bulgarians, to a Swiss flag-bearer who did juggling tricks. English athletes got few cheers. Next to last, the U. S. team members saluted Realmleader Hitler by placing their straw hats over their hearts. The crowd shouted, whistled, clapped...
Just 15 years before while I was city editor of the Nashville Banner, on June 2, 1921, I asked the press services to carry the following item, for the 'protection of newspapers elsewhere...
...part of the collection of the late Henry Oppenheimer, Foucquet's Portrait of an Ecclesiastic was the biggest single item in what many a dealer considered the most important sale of Old Masters' drawings ever held. Bidding with minute, professional nods, Lord Duveen and more than 200 other experts and spectators saw the 460 Oppenheimer drawings knocked down in three afternoons for some $500,000. Outbid by Lord Duveen on the Foucquet portrait, Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries got a Study of San Sebastian by Filippino Lippi for $6,825. London's Colnaghi & Co. paid...
...reported that orders booked in June were at a new high since 1929. The Association's index rose 8% from May to 128.8, which was 41% above a year ago. The May-June gain was recorded in the face of an actual drop in foreign orders, an important item with U. S. machine toolmakers. Except for 1929 and a few months in 1928 business was better than at any time in the past 16 years. The shortage of good machinists, noted early in Recovery, had become so serious that many a toolmaker could not staff his factory...