Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the exhibition was held at all is largely due to the interest of French intellectuals who have touched off a European comic-strip boom. Today, Resnais told Andriola, early Charlie Chan strips fetch about $50 each, and original proofs are worth much more. Swallowing hard, Andriola replied that he had recently thrown away all his Charlie Chan proofs: "Resnais looked at me as though I had destroyed the Mona Lisa...
...house itself is red brick, and in the rainy season its roof pours drinking water into barrels standing beneath the eaves. In the dry season, Lois Carlson, 36, and her two children, Wayne, 9, and Lynette, 7, would take the truck to a stream half a mile away to fetch water. At the edge of Wasolo is a leper colony whose inmates produce the best cotton in Ubangi Province. They pick the bolls clean with their teeth...
...estimated $8 billion in gold extracted from the New World by the Spanish, according to one expert, at least 5% -$400 million worth-was lost in shipwrecks on the way home. The actual value of all the lost loot is infinitely higher, since some 17th century coins and jewelry fetch huge prices; a single Spanish escudo can bring as much as $1,200 on the rare-coin market...
Those figures are based largely on book values. Full market value is something else. The broadcast properties, for example, could well fetch $8 or $9 million today; real estate, around $3.5 million; cash and municipal bonds, $500,000; miscellaneous personal property, $400,000-a presidential fortune, all told, of about $13 or $14 million...
...late father, though Dullea can't claim it until he simmers down some. One morning Ebsen strides out of the privy with a Monky Ward order book and begins thumbing through the catalogued commodities: wagons, wheat seed, whitewash . . . wives! Off he goes to Kansas City to fetch home for Dullea a scrubbed young widow and her small...