Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...that of yesterday succeed in reopening a breach, too recently closed, which can lead in the end only to mutual distrust. The Fourth Estate, in protesting against Harvard's indifference to the public, has seemingly forgotten that it, too, has its responsibilities. There are two sides to this particular bargain...
...Eskimos, had a good time generally. In the autumn he went home by way of Denmark. Rockwell Kent's pictures in N by E take up almost as much room as the text; it is a superpicturebook. Random House, makers of limited edi tions, have put out a bargain in their unlimited edition of Moby Dick. With 275 Kent drawings, small, well-designed pages, good paper, fine printing (Lakeside Press), it is a revelation of what a publisher can afford to produce with a book- club membership to safeguard his sales...
...Kingston, N. C., a farmer promised Thomas J. White and Ray Barbre a hen's egg for every rat they killed on his farm. When they had shot 70 the farmer begged to be released from the bargain because he needed the rest of his eggs for his family, offered to substitute sweet potatoes. White and Barbre shot 30 more rats...
Another excellent point in this production is the finesse of the technique of Mr. Moscovitz, and for that matter, that of Miss Selena Royle as Portia. The great lines of Shylock are spoken with such sureness and understanding that their greatness is of strike their bargain with Shylock, Mr. Moscovitz very subtly insinuates the true hate and venom of one who has been "spurned as a strange cur". He mingles his fawning and bitterness with laughter of the very cruelest variety. The play remains a dell-part of the character and not mere genius in the poet. In other words...
...rotten for reform. Everyone assumed at first last week that Prime Minister MacDonald, by promising this reform, had bought the votes of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George & cohorts, would use them to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill. But prominent Liberals refused to confirm any such bargain. The promise of reform was evidently not a bribe, but a bait...