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...marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale, cost up to $1,000 on the black market. It was clearly stamped a postwar product by its tinny materials, its cheap appearance, and even by its symbolism. In contradiction of the old sundial motto Horas non numero nisi serenas ("I count no hours but unclouded ones"), the new timepiece works on cloudy days also...
...culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which one of his chiefs was addicted." The chief frequented "a unique establishment ... the only house of ill-fame in the world whose 'girls' were all more than seventy years old." ^ Therese, the 250-lb. cook, "was a 'numero' in all senses of the word." ("A 'numero' . . . was one degree lower than a 'type,' but less severe than 'individu.' ") Armed with a butcher's knife and fortified with three liters of red wine (her daily quota: five liters), Therese was formida...
Among the fraternity, French art dealers have a handy way of figuring the value of pictures by artists with established reputation: they measure the canvases and divide the area into the resulting number of numéros (a numero being a space about five inches square). Pablo Picasso, highest priced of any French painter, gets about 7,000 francs per numero for his canvases. From that peak prices drop sharply. In Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art gave its first one-man show of the season to an artist rated by most dealers the third or fourth highest priced...
Legi cum multa voluptate epistolam Quindecim Harvardensium in vestro numero hujus hebdomadis. Sunt autem in ea quaedam expressiones quae eram attonitus videre; quia videntur mihi non satis classicae. Pro exemplo, "Multi Bullyi" debet esse (existimo) "Sortes Bullyorum," quia est multa differentia inter "Multi" et "Sortes," ut omne corpus scit. Exceptionem quoque caperem ad expressionem "ludum vilis globi" quae non in ullo bono scriptore possis invenire, et quae in mea opinione debet esse "humilis pilae." Non scire hoc crassam ignoran tiam arguit...