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...circle of artists. Their favorite Paris haunts were the bars of Montmartre, the paint shop of Père Tanguy, and the mezzanine of Goupil's Gallery, which modest Dutch Art Dealer Theo van Gogh had turned into a boisterous rendezvous for the despised impressionists. There congregated the unbought painters, including Toulouse-Lautrec, then 23, and swashbuckling Paul Gauguin, 39, the onetime stockbroker who was now a full-fiedged painter just back from Panama and Martinique, roaring with contempt as he shook his carved cane like a fencing master before the academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls...
...bracket taxes. By the stock deal he can increase his long-term capital gains, which are taxable at only 25%. Right off, he will net a profit of more than $30,000 in dividends (at the present rate), above the 3% interest he will pay the corporation on the unbought amount...
Quick was the Times to explain that this testimonial was unbought. unsolicited. Senator Capper of Kansas and Novelist Arnold Bennett of England were two other testifiers whose good words the Times published lately. A dozen other celebrities scheduled to compliment the Times through its own pages include Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation...
...reports of the expenses of the various athletic teams for the past year have all an indication that nothing which could in any way add to the equipments or the comfort of the teams has been left unbought. There has not been, it is true, such reckless expenditures of money as characterized the reports of the year before, but the reports sufficiently show that the financial management of the teams, taken all together, has not been so economical as it might have been. We make no accusation against the management of any one team, nor do we intend to specify...
Unheard his appeals, and his wares were unbought...