Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen. The caprices made the headlines, but the top honors went to the most staunchly established pillars of a solvent society: ¶Baronies (with the right to be addressed as "Lord") went to Unilever Board Chairman Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, ex-M.P. and Bank Director Ralph Assheton, Merchant Malcolm S. McCorquodale and World Court Judge Sir Arnold Duncan McNair. ¶Knighthoods (and the right to be addressed as "Sir") went to the British West Indies' onetime rabble-rousing Labor Leader William Alexander Bustamante, who used to cock a snook at Crown and Empire, to a covey of retired generals...
...France, although the snail is an item on all good menus, Jean Cadart, snail lover and onetime snail merchant, discovered a serious lack: there was no up-to-date book on edible snails. The gap has now been filled by a book by Cadart himself. Les Escargots (Paul Lechevalier; 750 francs) covers the subject with airtight completeness...
...stake was $1,200,000 of interest accumulated in a trust fund set up 50 years ago by an art-loving Chicago lumber merchant named Benjamin F. Ferguson. Ferguson's intention had seemed clear enough: "The erection and maintenance of enduring statuary and monuments, in whole or in part of stone, granite or bronze in the parks, along the boulevards or in other public places." Chicago's Art Institute got the job of picking appropriate subjects and sites...
...Wistful and out of place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...
...long legs limberer than ever after two years in the Army, Northwestern's sophomore speed merchant, galloping Jim Golliday, outran a light breeze and the best sprinters in the Big Ten to tie the world's loo-yd.-dash record (0:09.3) in the Big Ten Relays at Evanston...