Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such stubbornly facetious reporters as are sent, instead of art critics, to report the affair for newspapers. To exhibit an object of art under the auspices of this nonjury, non-prize-awarding organization, it is only necessary that the manufacturer of the object pay $8 to cover, presumably, the rent of wall-space. Hence many absurd trophies of the endless hunt for ideas are hung along the Waldorf wainscots and many able artists also, who quite naturally dislike submitting their efforts to unsympathetic juries, send excellent work to this strange and gaudy salon...
...talk about the campaign we held here for millions of years." he said. With parables and epigrams he summarized the serious topic of his sermon, Eternal Life: "Man tries to whitewash himself when God wants to wash him white. . . . Don't let God hang a 'For Rent' sign in the mansion he's prepared...
When questioned closely President Leatherbee admitted that the meeting had not gone smoothly. "There was one man who suggested that instead of acting the plays we rent the films from a ten cent picture palace, but I am proud to say that we vindicated the honor of the H. D.C. by immediate expulsion...
...miner sang: "How much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent-if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
...certainly it was more than $1,000,000. In exchange, Mr. Bishop acquired control of the Anderson Galleries. No real estate, no stock, not even a chipped picture frame changed hands. By buying the Anderson Galleries, Mr. Bishop had merely purchased access to its clientele, the opportunity to pay rent on an old four-story building, and a vast quantity of that dubious commodity described, in financial sheets and aeronautical despatches, as "goodwill...