Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curiosity and the announcement for the first performance read "by Pasquin's Company of Comedians. Never acted before. Being a true story in Common Life, and the Incidents extremely affecting. Written by the author of George Barnwell." The latter was Lillo's most famous play, The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell, a great success that held the boards for more than 100 years...
...original instructions were written in 1814 for an employee of Pratt, Boston merchant, ship owner, and grandfather of the late Josiah Parsons Cooke, professor of Chemistry. Mr. Pratt captained his own ships for years in trade routes between Boston and the West Indies...
...Thursday, May 9, 1901, a young lumber merchant from Maine named Edward Allen Pierce went to work in Wall Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage...
Flagship of the British merchant fleet after the Cunard White Star merger last year was neither the huge (56,000 tons) Majestic nor the fast (28 knots) Mauretania, nor the proud Berengaria. Instead the red-and-gold burgee of the combined fleet's commodore flew from the main truck of a little (20,000 tons) old (1921) ship called Samaria. Only reason that vessel flew the commodore's flag was because Commodore Robert G. Malin, a quiet man, liked little ships better than big ones, liked the Samaria best...
...whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with one knight, attempts to seduce another's wife, is rebuffed. The Jew reappears as a Sicilian merchant whose son dies and whose wife leaves him to become a nun. Lastly, in Seville, he is a kindly doctor who treats a trollop's injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition hales him up as a heretic, the Jew flays the Church for being unChristian...