Word: secondhands
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...apiece) between 8 o'clock one morning and 3 o'clock that afternoon. Lathes of the type used in arsenals could not be had at any price. Prices jumped 12½% on tools that could still be had. Dealers from Canada to Texas looked out for secondhand machines...
Saint Francis, most ambitious and startling of the three, was a colorful, ingenious mixture of secondhand religious fervor with syrup of ballet: it caused terrific applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed...
...making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself in the company of a bunch of U. S. millionaires aboard a trans-atlantic liner. Feeling out of things because they were talking nothing but big money, he ordered 365 glasses...
...sold at the price that is lettered in soap on the windshield. It is a fact to which A. D. Mitchell, who in the early part of the century had the Helena, Mont, agency for Mitchell cars, never became reconciled. He always refused to sell a Mitchell, new or secondhand, for less than its list price...
...Welles insists, this has nothing to do with his Mercury triumphs; for years he has had these things by virtue of his radio earnings; and second, the Big House isn't such a big house (eight rooms and four nooks, $115 a month), the car is secondhand, and the chauffeur exists because Welles himself doesn't drive. Says he: "I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour-and the more frightened I get, the faster I go." At Sneden's Landing-20 miles from Times Square across...