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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billboards and in city papers. When he had $100,000 he spent it all on an advertising campaign in Manhattan, got no returns. He saved up $100,000 more, spent that the same way, then $250,000 that brought back his losses and put him way ahead. "I'm strong for honest ballyhoo, but you can't treat them all alike. Don't let them lose you and don't let them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought...
...Berengaria she danced with Thomas Mellon (nephew) of Pittsburgh. "I'm not particularly fond of dancing. ... I don't dance at all in London...
...days later in a message to the Chamber of Deputies' Finance Committee M. Painleve explained that plans to fortify France's northern and eastern frontiers will take five more years to complete, cost a hundred million dollars. Wrote...
...theatre, M. I'Admimstrateur is right next to the Spanish cinema," said he. "Between us is an unused courtyard. Every night when the theatre is closed I take the poster boards down from in front of the theatre and store them in this courtyard. This Spanish type, he does the same thing with his posters. Very well, morning after morning I have found the French posters torn to shreds, the Spanish posters untouched...
...chief of the sacred treasures of Japan is the mirror which contains the spirit of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of H. I. M. The Emperor of Japan. Of such superlative sanctity is Amaterasu's mirror that for centuries no human eye has ever actually seen it. Rumored to be a round plate of polished metal, it rests in an elaborate tabernacle, shrouded in a cover of white brocade. When the brocade wears out a new cover is slipped over the old-no priest would dare peek...