Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days the sale went on: rapiers, helmets, cannon, snaphaunces (immediate ancestor of flintlock muskets), silver candlesticks, paintings, ivory carvings, gilded chairs, diamond brooches, jade-handled daggers, bottles of perfume, all the opulent impedimenta of one of the most amazing families...
Like most men who lead violent lives, Morosini's artistic taste was that of a bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking...
...because on such & such a date some of these securities were sent to purchasers through the mail. This evidence when presented to the trial jury may be supported by an attack on the accuracy of certified balance sheets and operating statements, or it may deal with careless preparation of sales circulars which resulted in "misrepresentation" and loss to purchasers. If it is the latter aspect, one item for comment will be the sale of $11,000,000 First & Refunding Mortgage bonds, not first mortgages at all as the term is commonly used in realty parlance, but part first and part...
...Stadium will be open at 12.15 o'clock and there will be seats on sale for the game at Gates 3, 4 and 6 on North Harvard Street, Gate 9 at the entrance from the parking place, and Gate 13 on the speedway...
...Harvard and Dartmouth Athletic Associations announced last night that there will be a public sale of tickets for the Harvard-Dartmouth game to be played at Soldiers Field on Saturday, October 22. The several Cambridge sporting goods stores which have been handling the sale of tickets for the Harvard-Penn State game will also have the Dartmouth game tickets on sale next week...