Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tickets will be $2.50 for stags and $4 for couples, and are now on sale at the Union newsstand...
Next day, one Jean Henri Baptiste Brieux, son of a poor kiosk woman, entered several shops where religious knick-knacks were on sale, seized and dashed upon the ground some two dozen cheap plaster figurines of the Blessed Virgin. Arrested, he explained: "In revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold...
...days later, at Christie's famed London auction room, the Imperial Russian nuptial crown- composed of double rows of brilliants, surmounted by a diamond cross-was placed on sale by the Soviet Government, hawked, cried up from an initial bid of $25,000, auctioned off at last to a Parisian jeweler, M. Founess...
...Harvard Hall. According to one account; "as the commons rendered the college independent of private boarding-houses so the buttery removed all just occasion for resorting to the different marts of luxury, intemperance, and ruin. This was a kind of supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery, and, in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which, for the most part, were not included in the commons' fare...
...damages. Therefore my book appeared last week with a bright red label stuck on the cover, reading: 'With pain at our heart we publish, in sheer respect for our contract, a new and most amusing book by that anti-Fascist swine- Blasco Ibanez.' This stratagem boosted the sale to 'best seller' figures...