Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall and dark promoter who, in the words of one admiring contemporary, "could sell a breath of air." Sears was a railroad telegrapher in tiny North Redwood, Minn, in the '80s-a time when shady manufacturers unloaded their stocks by shipping them C.O.D. to unsuspecting small-town merchants, then offered them cut-rate prices "to avoid return shipping costs." When a shipment of men's "yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local merchant, Sears got them for $12 apiece and sold them for $14. In six months...
...over backward to live up to the letter of their labor contracts with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and pay fancy salaries for labor-relations and public-relations advisers. "Hell," snorted a plantation owner recently, "they are so damn busy at Bishop & Merchant with labor-relations meetings that they've forgotten how to raise sugar...
Detailed Description. In Lexington, Ky., after a swindled merchant set cops on the trail of a forger wearing a ragged coat fastened with an eightpenny nail, Suspect Brice Young protested: "It couldn't be me. My coat is fastened with tenpenny nail...
After intermission, the chorus was joined by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. The "Serenade to Music," with the text from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," demonstrated Vaughan Williams' great ability in fitting music to words. The gradual crescendo and accelerando that begins at the words "Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn," were vivid without being garish, effective without artificiality. And there were many other moments of similar dramatic unity...
...fascinating work. The CRIMSON interviews everyone from bigots to bird-watchers, and crowned heads all over Cambridge tremble when the word comes around that "the CRIMSON wants to talk to you." Selling ads is fun, too; there is a feeling of triumph that comes from selling a cagey Square merchant that is unparalled by the most intensive experience the Quad could offer...