Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budapest, Rudolph Steinherz,*; wine- merchant, got young Lajos Naghazy to murder him in a railway carriage. Object: that the Steinherz family might collect a large insurance policy. Honorarium to Lajos Naghazy: a gold watch...
Eager to see how St. Gandhi would look in trousers, etc., International News Photos last week placed his head on the well-draped form of one Tod Marshall, male model at the convention of the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America in Pittsburgh, Pa. last January, retouched his hand to brown scrawniness...
...William Rothenstein (knighted last year) was born in Yorkshire in 1872, the son of a prosperous cloth merchant. At the age of 16 he left grammar school to be an artist, studied at the Slade School in London under Alphonse Legros, a meticulous draughtsman and a pupil of Ingres. The Ingres-Legros influence is still obvious in Rothenstein's drawing. A preternaturally solemn youth of 17 in a long black frock coat, he went to Paris to enter the Academic Julian...
...time of the fire the kennel not only owned about $100,000 worth of dogs, but it had acquired an enviable reputation in the prize-ring. Its world champion wire-haireds. Brandy Snap, Wycollar Wonder, Wycollar Diamond Merchant and Welwire Wildflower, each valued at about $4,000, were among the top dogs in American Kennel Club lists...
...collection, which is to bear Professor Schofield's name, was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of medieval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field. Most of the older books are in the original bindings; there are a large number of rarities and some unique items. Together with the Maurer Collection, given to the University in 1904 by the late Professor A. C. Coolidge, it gives Harvard...