Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be remembered that, although these quotations may be for different prints, they are all equally genuine originals. The more prints the artist makes from his plate, the less valuable they naturally become. In recent years the edition has often been limited...
...Japanese bluejackets with fixed bayonets "defending the scene of the crime" and blustered at the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Quaking General Wu Teh-chen, who officially promised four times in succession: "I will do everything in my power!" Fresh woe for Wu developed when a mob smashed the plate-glass window of one of Shanghai's Japanese-owned stores. As panicky Chinese ran for the International Settlement an attache of Japan's Embassy declared, "We deplore this exodus. We have made no demands. We are gratified by the spontaneous co-operation of Mayor Wu." On the Island...
...Bronx is the zoo. And, gentle readers, isn't that what makes the Vagabond the charming old rascal that he is--that he likes such things? What's the Cotton Club compared to a cage of acrobatic monkeys? Feed a fair one at the Ritz at two-fifty a plate; feed the animals in the zoo--but they won't let you--at five cents a bag--and much more fun! Philosopher thou art right: How distorted our sense of values is! Then on Friday the Vagabond heard Rudy Vallee at the Waldorf; on Sunday--with his little brother...
Worthington Pump & Machinery, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Procter & Gamble, Allis-Chalmers, Diamond Match, American Locomotive, Crane, Hammermill Paper, White Rock Mineral Springs, three dozen others. There was a man from the U. S. Navy Department and one from Standard Statistics...
...this and the longer I thought the madder I got because I needed my keys about unlockin' things. Here I was unable to get into my place without crawlin' in the window. I lived there and I had a right nice place. I had me a hot plate and as good a blanket as you ever...