Word: vase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acquisitiveness had shaped him from the beginning. There was acquisition, first of money, then of beautiful things. John Pierpont Morgan, too, was acquisitive, with the vehemence that made him grip life with both hands like a vase that must be held to be admired. Mr. Morgan had a very great library, a very great gallery. He is dead, and now the world produces no one else to match in the depth of this need to buy and hold the California gentleman who has come to own the letters of Mary Queen of Scots. If Mr. Huntington wants to read Chaucer...
...course this deflation of the lira will give rise to sweeping and painful industrial readjustments. For example: An Italian laborer now blows glass vases which are sold for 300 lire ($11.25). If the lira were restored instantly to par, the vase (still priced at 300 lire) would cost $57.90. No vases would then be bought by foreigners, and the laborer would be thrown out of work. Obviously, as the value of the lira increases, the price of the vase in lire will be lowered, but this type of readjustment always lags behind the rapid shift in international exchange, and therefore...
...some said had been heard in Spokane stopped beaming at the bevy of upturned faces--the Pathe news of the Leviathan--and then Bebe the inimitable, the exquisite--the comedienne is off in a cloud of dust, traffic cops, contortionists--and who hasn't wanted to break a big vase--or be a million dollars out and five millions...
Porcelain. A Chinese vase in green, yellow, and aubergine (1665) to Frank Partridge of London for $3,100, the highest price paid for anything in the porcelain collection. B. N. Needham, Manhattan collector, paid $2,000 for a Chamberlain Worcester dessert service of 45 pieces. Each plate is painted with a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays, and has on its back (in case any inquisitive guest should turn it over) an appropriate quotation from the bard...
...Manhattan last week a lady put her hand into a vase and drew out a piece of paper with a name on it - a name often stamped in blue on the snowy fat of hams and neatly printed upon bacon boxes -Swift, of Chicago. Mr. Harold...