Word: hoarding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until today the Government of President Washington Luis is saddled with a stupendous hoard of coffee supposed to exceed 13 million bags -as much as an average year's crop...
...lived in a sort of landlocked sailing vessel with a hoard of money and a crew to assist him in drinking, antics and the illusion that life was what he wanted it to be. He made his first mistake in getting married to Miss Pickle, a sour lady who proceeded to reorganize his household so that below-decks it was almost indistinguishable from a landlubber's parlor...
City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall...
...Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...
...theory which has stood the test of time. In about 1085, a foreign invasion from the East frightened the monks who piled up in that cave all their manuscripts and paintings, and walled up the entrance. They must have been killed or scattered, and the memory of the hoard died out. It was rediscovered by chance in 1900, but luck had it that in the course of the next few years no Chinese scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein...