Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propose the fig leaf as your emblem, gentlemen! Honor it as the origin of your great Merchant Tailors' Federation. When the Garden of Eden crisis occurred, Eve took the only available fig leaf, and Adam had to clothe himself in heavy skins...
...convivial Merchant Tailors, banqueting in London last week, it seemed that the above words were actually uttered by Guest-of-Honor Sir Nicholas Gratten-Doyle, M. P., and Director of Northern Newspapers Co., Ltd. But friends of Sir William doubted. They knew that he knows his Bible. Therefore it seemed impossible that he could have so thoroughly scrambled the Genesis story of the fig leaves and the suits of skins...
...hours. Then the Augustus steamed on. None doubted that Miss Louise Moore had drowned instanter. But 17 hours later, the Italian merchant vessel Capo Nord came wallowing after the Augustus into the vicinity where the tragedy occurred. A lookout peering from the Capo Nord's mast saw or thought he saw a woman floating. Whatever the lookout saw vanished before the Capo Nord could be stopped. Search again proved fruitless. The lookout said: "I distinctly saw a bobbed-haired woman in a pink garment...
...comparatively few people. Yet there have been indications of a more widespread realization of the important place these organizations occupy in the marketing structure. . . . The futures exchanges bring into the market a large number of equity traders who . . . lift the burden of risk from the shoulders of producer, merchant...
They married in 1903. He was the son of a Saxon beer merchant; and, being a smart son, won his Doctor's degree with a thesis entitled: Upon the Development of the Berlin Bottled Beer Trade...