Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physical audience ; they warmed to their work, their voices were perfectly reproduced, even to the finest nuances of shading. Between numbers, the announcer's metallic voice jargoned, reminded the throng of ghostly listeners that the two artists made records for the Victor Co., that these records were on sale. Before Mr. McCormack sang his crowning ballad, Mother Machres, telegrams began to arrive from far states congratulating the singers. At the concert's end, the selected notables in the reception room rose and beat their palms together...
...page 5 of the Dec. 29 issue of TIME, under the head of Prohibition, you tell how much the enforcement of prohibition costs the Government annually. You say nothing, however, about the moneys received as fines and from sale of seized cars which, I believe, are more than the amount expended...
...feel, that in fairness to the friends of prohibition, you should publish also the amount received in fines and from sale of seized cars as the mere statement as to expenditure without anything being said about returns is misleading, to say the least...
...preparing his forthcoming book, "The Complete Limerick," he still clings nobly to his original conviction that there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...
Fancy, figure, and eccentric skating and many other novel features will comprise the Radcliffe carnival program. Tickets will be placed on sale tomorrow at the Arena, Wright and Ditson's, Leavitt and Peirce's, and Herrick...