Word: quin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs. The Louvre got Durameau's Partie de Cartes aux Bougies for 36,000 francs and Saint Aubin's Rêve for 76,000 francs. Hubert Robert's Vouté reached 8,000 francs. By auction, Durighiello's Venus Accroupie, excavated in Asia...
...whooping cough, pass the child nine times over and under a donkey from left to right." That is a prescription of the 17th Century. For the same complaint, 100 years ago, a doctor would have shaken his head, stroked his beaver, written Pil. Quin. Sulph. on a brown pad, and the mother would have thought she had a cureall. Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words. An example is Dr. S. M. Rinehart, who has written...
Representative Percy E. Quin, Democrat from Mississippi, rose in the House to speak. He placed his quid of chewing gum on the speaker's table and proceeded...
...excitement, Mr. Quin pounded the table. His gum broke loose from its moorings and began to roll from side to side, flirting with the edge of destruction. At last, Representative James H. MacLafferty of California rose and interposed: "Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I wish to state to him that he is in imminent danger of losing his chewing...
...Quin often displays himself in interesting ways before the public. Sometimes he carries his lunch to his office. Again he is pictured with his almost-inseparable pipe. When he first campaigned for election he got himself a saddle horse and pair of saddle bags and rode about visiting the farmers in his district...