Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Journalism has produced few more plausible hoaxes than H. L. Mencken's famed essay on the history of the U.S. bathtub. Mencken's yarn explains how a Cincinnati grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
...tapestry unwinds slowly, and in a leisurely procession of vivid details-the nuns of Marrick Priory at the harvest, an ousted priest bitterly walking travelers' horses before a church, young squires at archery practice, a merchant cold-bloodedly bartering his wife for a neighbor's gold-the chronicler delicately picks out a background of all England in that...
...Cooperative Society and Howard Johnson's in Harvard Square, students belonging to the Coop will now receive a patronage refund on meals, lunches, sodas and ice cream bought at Howard Johnson's. This is the first time in Coop history that such an arrangement has been completed with another merchant in the Square...
...with a bribe of $10,000 and the combined diplomatic talents of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, the U.S. persuaded the Barbary pirates to lay off U.S. merchant shipping and signed the Sultan of Morocco to a treaty of friendship. When the treaty ran out in 1836, President Andy Jackson got it renewed indefinitely. Since then, Americans visiting or living in Morocco have had extraterritorial rights, freedom from import controls and certain taxes (although all other countries had given up these rights...
After eight months of marriage, Marion Davies, onetime actress and friend of the late William Randolph Hearst, filed suit for divorce from her merchant-mariner husband, Capt. Horace Brown. Two days later, Columnist Hedda Hopper reported "the strangest reconciliation in Hollywood's history." Brown's story to Hedda: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet, and the monkey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots. I went down to her sister Rose's house and shot...