Word: secondhands
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...once reached the floor of the House of Commons. The starkest of the Seven, Lawren S. Harris (whose painting matches Rockwell Kent's for sober, barren clarity), stopped the debate cold by a passionate outburst: "It is blasphemy to wilt under the weight of ages; to succumb to secondhand living; to mumble old, dead catch phrases; to praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbor's clumsiness...
...denied admission to press conferences because they don't "belong." All but one or two of Japan's 50-odd new postwar papers have been kept out. Jiji, Japan's second-biggest news agency, with membership in only two clubs, has to feed its clients unofficial, secondhand yarns...
...school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
...original cost, a pool of books could be built up, for which the veteran would be charged under the GI authorization only enough more than the turn-in price to take care of overhead costs. Obviously if the government is doing the paying, no one is going to buy secondhand books if new ones are available, but until that time when enough books are on the market, such a turn-in system would do much to alleviate the critical shortage of the next eight months...
...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...