Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed from Philip II of Spain to his English wife Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), then on to the Bonapartes of France, and to England's Marquess of Abercorn. Last week La Peregrina turned up on the block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, and it was swiftly sold for $37,000. The buyer? Parke-Bernet was not saying, but reporters had an inkling. Less than a year ago, Richard Burton had bought the Krupp diamond for $305,000 at a similar sale. After a little prodding, Burton's lawyers explained that Liz's birthday is less...
Kefta Lunch. "The hippies come here for the pot, of course," says a young visitor from New York-and indeed Morocco is a hashhead's delight. Kif, raw leaf marijuana, is openly (although illegally) sold for $4.50 a pound and widely smoked in public in clay pipes that can be bought for 100 a dozen in any souk, or shop. With or without the assistance of kif, Morocco is a delight. In winter, a venturesome visitor can swim in the morning off the beach at Essaouira on the Atlantic, lunch on kefta (skewered minced steak with herbs) in Marrakesh...
...informal chat before riding together to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for the formal change of command. The trip back?the triumphal parade that was to take the rest of the afternoon?was a box-office success. All 38,000 seats along the line of march were sold in advance...
...created his famous "Tashay" (he abhorred the term "toupee") and advertised it as "a hurricane-resisting hairpiece that can be combed and brushed, kept on in high winds and when swimming, and worn for weeks without removal." By the time he retired in 1964, his company had sold wigs to more than 100,000 happy clients. When someone asked who his most satisfied customer was, Feder tugged at his Tashay and cried, "Who else...
Over the years, Sapone has earned 2,300 paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works by the artists he has dressed. Since he has no bank account and little cash, he has reluctantly sold 1,850 of them in order to live. Still, Sapone has rejected offers of $20,000 for a pointillist abstract dancer by Gino Severini and $60,000 for an exceptionally sensitive Alberto Giacometti portrait of the tailor's daughter Aika...