Word: second-hand
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...those members of the Bourgeoisie who intend to dust off their full-dress clothes should leave them in dark clothes or, better still, sell them to those Jews who tragic in second-hand clothes," the Pepolo Di Trieste said...
...familiar sight to generations of students, Max Keezer's second-hand shop on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Plympton street is now no more. After 37 years of continuos occupancy near Harvard Square Keezer has been forced by high rents and unprosporous times to move his emporium about three blocks down the avenue towards Central Square on the other side of the (trolley) tracks...
...newsmen in Hankow, accustomed to second-hand stories of conditions in Japanese-occupied areas of China, listened last week to a first-person account by tall, bristly-haired, up-&-coming 42-year-old Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson of the U. S. Marine Corps. Having served five years as attaché to the U. S. Embassy at Peking, Captain Carlson returned to Hankow after three and a half months' "tour" as a military observer of the "conquered" provinces of Shansi, Hopei, Shantung and Suiyuan, where he traveled with organized Chinese guerrilla bands, including detachments of the Communist-trained Eighth Route...
...content to wait for television to convert radio into eye and ear entertainment, U. S. broadcasters strain the microphone by trying to make it report inaudible events at second hand. Sponsors' favorite among the second-hand reporters is Oddities Collector Robert Ripley, whose Believe It Or Not programs have missed only one broadcasting season since...
...enough to pay for what he owes. If cotton is selling at io/ a Ib. or better, he may receive one or two hundred dollars. But he has an immense yearning for a store suit, a cotton dress for his wife, a few pretties for his children, perhaps a second-hand Chevrolet or a splendid, ancient Studebaker. So, either way he goes on living by The Book...