Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pipe was secondhand. The same troops, in fighting over the same terrain last spring in the War of Farm Relief, had laid it down as a means of pumping U. S. cash to the farmers. When they were driven out of the lowlands, they carried their Export Debenture pipe along with them in retreat. Now it was down again, by a larger vote than ever before...
...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
Mail is dumped on the great man's coverlet. He rummages, hurls books to the floor. "To the bath! To the bath!" (An enormous tub is filled thus almost weekly; a secondhand bookseller empties it, giving 50 francs a bath, verse or prose.) Letters all go into the fire. No, here is one from a madwoman, addressed in blue, crimson, green inks. "She begs me to save my soul, poor crazed thing...
Malcolm MacDonald, 22-year-old son of Premier MacDonald, recently graduated from Oxford, spoke thus in an interview at London: "You see, people like me come down from Oxford full of ideas, but they are other people's ideas. They are secondhand. I want some experience to confirm them or else to get a new set of my own. It will probably be some time before I go in for politics. In the meantime I should like to study every phase of life, and I think that can best be done as a reporter...
Psychology as well as economic principles plays an essential part in the American automobile industry. Faced with overproduction, huge secondhand stocks, and sharp price competition, many car companies are seeking their individual salvation by tempting the public with new models and thus encouraging continued heavy buying...