Word: sell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They fired his imagination. He quit school when he was eleven to sell newspapers and run a kids' crap game-a project which meant paying off the Irish cop on the beat. He soon graduated to sterner enterprise. When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession...
...once said that Americans would consider Horizon "sissy" writing, it was actually U.S. subscriptions that had encouraged him to keep publishing. They had risen in two years from 500 to 1,200 while a "traveler sent around the big towns of the north [of England] was able to sell only one subscription in a year." Lamented Connolly bitterly: "The public gets the magazine it deserves. London, of course, is a particularly disheartening center from which to operate . . . that sterile, embittered, traditional literary society which has killed so many finer things than a review of literature...
...leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell me, but I know one thing. I'll never leave Brooklyn. If I was sold . . . I'd quit." He might quit anyhow, he thought, after one more season. It was also a big week for Jackie Robinson Jr., who celebrated his third birthday with his parents and neighborhood friends...
...pulpitlike rostrum, Parke-Bernet's President Hiram H. Parke sedately cajoled more bids. "What's the matter," called Rose, "you got a stiff arm?" Not until the price had risen another $10,000 did Parke's arm loosen up enough to bring down the hammer and sell the painting to Rose...
With the aim of establishing a book store to sell wholesale to students in the College, Student Council member Dominque Wyant '50 has sent questionnaires to 50 colleges which have their own student book stores in order to get suggestions from which he may organize a workable system here...