Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showed up with a couple of Withington's helpers. As the auction hands turned the chest over so that Partridge could check its construction, Hammitt laughed and said, "It's junk, it's all new. Go home, Jack." Partridge, an Englishman, haw-hawed delightedly. "Yes," he said. "Dreadful stuff. Such a pity...
Only the best of Americana catches the attention of Mable Lomas, the 82- year-old proprietor of Anderson's Antiques, in Hopkinton, N.H. She is said to be the most respected dealer in the state, and her rules are stern: "No oak. No kitchen stuff. No collectibles." Mrs. Lomas has attended Withington's auctions almost since his first, in 1949, and like other dealers, she credits him with putting on the best show around and with being fair. He will not offer pieces with reserve, or minimum, prices, for instance, and does not accept phone-in bids. Does Withington guarantee...
...first problem is where to put it. All across "corndom," as Author E.J. Kahn Jr. likes to call it, there is a frantic search for storage space. In Dubuque they will use caves. On the Missouri River, they will tie up barges and stuff them. The Behlen Mfg. Co., in Columbus, Neb., which makes metal bins, has increased its work force from 350 to 750. Marion Havens, of Greenfield, Iowa, who assembles bins, is working triple his usual pace, rooting a new one every fourth day in some field. They point toward the blue sky like truncated missiles. If only...
...actually it was in a warehouse... I moved stuff." Having made my confession I slink off into exile, leaving them looking like a bunch of children who have just learned their grandmother is a transvestite...
Usually this person will not say another word until the last day, when he shuffles up to me and growls, "You may be real good with them books and tests and stuff, but you ain't shit with a weedeater...