Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tickets for the two Brattle Hall performances on December 10 and 11, for the matinee and evening performance at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston on December 13, and for the presentation at Wellesley Hills on the evening of December 14 are now on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's, the Co-operative and Hervick...
...Modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of light wines and beers, to be followed by a tax on these beverages to pay the bonus. This was suggested by the New York Daily News, offspring of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and generally reflecting the opinions of Senator McCormick of Illinois. As a practical possibility this suggestion is negligible if not ridiculous...
...eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself largely by the sale of medicines, among people who preferred spells and amulets to the drugs of Western science, he traveled with the Mecca pilgrimage from Damascus as far as Medain Salih, later wandering through the vast, waterless marches of Central Arabia until he reached the hills and oasis of Kheybar-then south again with...
...heroes of the game beside Captain Hubbard or Captain Mallory; or, from a sartorial point of view, J. August or Paul Poiret. These unsung heroes were the humble souls who took up their position on the Anderson Bridge and just outside the gates of Soldiers' Field to offer for sale short sections of vani-colored oilcloth...
...those modern catch-words which drive men mad. It has indeed become more than a word, for as a fact it has spread everywhere. In journalism, however, one still looks for individualism and unhampered expression of opinion. Such fond fancies received a rude shock in England recently by the sale of the Hulton newspapers. These, numbering seven in all and published in London and Manchester, passed into the hands of Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook. The former is a brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and is said to have been mainly responsible for the latter's success...