Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of the triangular debate is: "Resolved. That the Volstead Act, Amended to allow the sale of light wines and beers, would be preferable to the act in its present form...
...served, and special "1929" cigarette trays furnished through the cooperation of Arthur's, Inc. The meeting will end promptly at 7.30 o'clock to permit Freshmen to reach the Arena by 8.15 o'clock in time for the Freshman Hockey game with Yale, tickets for which are now on sale...
...Metropolitan Museum paid $1,300 for a George I side-table in black and gold. The proceeds of the first day's sale were...
...rumor persisted. S. D. Bowers, a collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been an international polo match. But now the excitement had cooled a little. Fevered patricians did not get up and shout their bids; they were represented by their agents who, to indicate a raise of $1,000, lifted a forefinger, waved a catalog or merely jerked their heads...
...merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among the 3,000 owners or executives of dry-goods stores who checked into the hotel...