Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallery nothing. On two counts the gallery sued: 1) for the unpaid commission; 2) for $100,000 injury to the gallery's artistic reputation. Clients would be led to believe, it was claimed, that first-class oils are obtainable at lower rates without the aid of an entrepreneur, by dealing directly with the artist. Last week New York Supreme Court Justice Schmuck ordered Defendant Christy to pay the $1,500 fee, threw out of court the damage charge as "founded on logic far too speculative for the court to follow...
...about year after year, experimenting along lines that are bound to end in frustration and nervous disappointment. With a tact that the present generation does not deserve; Miss Hahn starts out on the long task of explanation and illustration. The terrifying suspicion grows upon one as she pro-Broadway entrepreneur masquerading under a feminine nom de plume, or, b) a former Hollywood houri with a degree of experience it is inconvenient even to imagine...
...much learned controversy, the diggers agreed that the statue must be that of King Hiram I of Tyre, who reigned as a contemporary of Solomon, 480 years after Moses had led the children of Israel from the wilderness and a diet of manna. King Hiram was something of an entrepreneur for his time: Solomon needed aid for the building of his temple, the mighty House of the Lord; Hiram had certain supplies and many artisans. They bargained. The outcome was that Hiram sent Solomon hewed cedars of Lebanon, gold and many an artisan. In return Solomon paid Hiram...
...there's "Saki". Anyone who hasn't read "Saki" (the pen-name of H. H. Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...