Word: sale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December Thomas Eakins' widow died, in the plain Philadelphia house to which she had gone as a bride in 1884. Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000 Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models...
Censorship's heavy hand descended on Cambridge news merchants yesterday when Police Chief Leahy, objecting to a picture entitled "Nude" in the current issue of Popular Photography, banned the sale of that magazine on all newsstands...
...look here, Dad, what this American paper, the very paper we like so much, dared to say against us Brazilians." And presently he stretched out TIME, Sept. 11, and there, almost unbelieving the testimony of my eyes, I began to read, under the epigraphs Latin America, Death for Sale...
...third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman won a dollar. He had bet that Representative Bloom would get the pen that signed the paper that lifted the embargo on the sale of arms and implements of war to warring nations...
...dance is informal and tickets will go on sale at the Union immediately. The price of admission is only one dollar, and Ken Reeves and his orchestra will provide the music...