Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British soldiers steaming from the Far East to the Mediterranean mutinied and killed three British merchant seamen, according to Captain David Bone who filed at Gibraltar a terse account which shocked London. The soldiers were ordered brought to Southampton for trial...
...Henry Pu Yi. His Majesty did not summon Butterfly Wu to his new Court. She, as a Chinese Cinema Queen, has continued onward & upward. The height of her ambition was to marry wealth. Came last week tidings of her wedding in Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, to a wealthy Christian wine merchant named Eugene Penn...
...Dana Noyes. His job, however, does not give him his unchallenged position as dean of financial writers. In years, as in wisdom, he stands apart from and above his colleagues. Born the year that Farragut took New Orleans, he learned about the Panic of 1873 first-hand from his merchant father. He was only a year out of Amherst and just breaking in as a Wall Street cub when the Panic of 1884 struck. By the Panic of 1893 he had been financial editor of the old New York Evening Post for two years. Under his command the Post became...
...amount of $10,000,000. The Merchandise Mart can best be described as a store for storekeepers. Eighteen of its 21 floors are packed with clothes, curtains, rugs, chairs, tables, silverware, notions, toys, dishes, jewelry-all the merchandise commonly found in U. S. department stores. But the merchant is the customer and the manufacturer is the man-behind-the-counter...
...varied as Angna Enters' or Ruth Draper's. In a severe black cloak she was a tortured Yemenite youth wailing to God to take away his sadness. Just as surely, she was a voluptuous young Spanish girl wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel a need for words...