Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sale. A woman, of course, and in this case Claire Windsor, daughter of socially prominent Manhattanites disporting on the edge of bankruptcy. Her impecunious suitor is discarded and a wealthy one selected. Returning from a party at which the engagement was announced, the plutocratic fiance is killed in an automobile wreck. This opens the field for Adolphe Menjou-wealthy, socially ambitious. Claire's father has misappropriated money entrusted to him for investment by Menjou...
...Copies of all these patents are on file in the Patent Office and form the permanent record for search purposes for use of the examining corps to determine novelty of applications for patents. Copies are also kept in stock for the purpose of sale so that they may be available to the public, practically at cost. Such copies number about 50,000,000 and occupy about 20 linear miles of single shelving in the Patent Office, over 200,000 copies of such patents being sold each month for 10¢ each...
...Rupert Hughes has been writing prolifically almost ever since, except when he was an Army Captain during the Spanish-American War, and serving on the Mexican border in 1916. Among his novels and plays: The Whirlwind, We Can't Have Everything, Cup of Fury, Beauty, Souls for Sale, Excuse Me, What Will People...
Tickets for the Class Day Spread will be on sale at Phillips Brooks House today and tomorrow, and also at the Spread tomorrow...
...refreshments last year. This reduction, in the face of rising prices elsewhere, is explained by the fact that the price of last year's tickets, which was based on cost, with no profit accruing to Phillips Brooks House, did not anticipate such a heavy attendance. With the present sale of tickets, which continues daily at Phillips Brooks House, insuring a repetition of patronage, it has thus been possible to reduce the price...