Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products of Red workers and property confiscated from onetime Russian aristocrats, all of which the U. S. shoppers seemed eager to buy. They paid, according to Pravda, "more than $50,000 for confiscated property alone." Ever since the revolution the Soviet Government has been trying-and failing -to sell Tsarist property...
Before her husband's political onslaught of last week, Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, a comfortable home body and next to Royalty the outstanding bazaar-opener of the Realm, admitted that she had again held a winning ticket in a charity lottery...
...0ther fronts on which Publisher Hearst is challenging Publisher Nast: Harper's Bazaar . Vogue, Home & Field v. House & Garden...
...inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music and great speech; so that the great singer, the great...