Word: buying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed that 60% of the Western Germans do not want to bear arms. Certainly, it was unrealistic to expect, as some Western military leaders have suggested, that Germans would long bear arms under foreign officers, i.e., under Western Union headquarters. Cried the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine last week: "You cannot buy German military ability for money, white bread and corned beef...
Christmas to the vast throngs is little more than a noisy excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians...
...opening. Swarms of prominent Tulsans were disappointed when the Hollywood stars who had been announced failed to show up. But beauty was well represented by Tulsa-born Singer Patti Page, who arrived in a Cadillac, mink and diamonds; and by Helen Maria Alvarez herself who, though too busy to buy a new costume, looked more than satisfactory in a three-year-old lace dress...
...Good. From Los Angeles, Hilton went shopping in New York. "When I saw all those people in the streets, I didn't see how you could lose money," he says. "And I had to establish myself in New York. I could borrow money from my Texas friends to buy a small hotel, but only in New York could I get the millions I wanted to swing the deals I had in mind." The first deal looked too good to Hilton. The famed Ritz Hotel was offered to him for $700,000 and he turned it down. Said...
...life of Hilton, get out his book under the title The Man Who Bought the Plaza. Two months ago, with 7,500 copies already printed, the title had to be changed to The Man Who Bought the Waldorf. Now, says Hilton solemnly, "I've promised myself not to buy any more hotels until the book comes...