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...prices are still lower than current U. S. prices. Some prices: 1 lb. of chocolate caramels, 23?; 1 lb. of canned meat, 12?; ½ lb. of black caviar, $1.15; a cotton dress, from 68? to $3.20; a beret, 16?; wool mittens, 16?; a towel, 22?; a handkerchief, 3?; a pair of men's boots, $3.32; a frying...
...accepted. At 40 he was making big money and spending most of it. He bought himself a two-wheeled carriage, a thoroughbred horse. On his first trip he fell, spraining his ankle. On a subsequent trip the carriage tipped over, killed an onlooker. Goya sold the equipage, bought a pair of mules and a carriage with four wheels. In 1788 Charles IV came to the throne. Interested only in hunting he allowed his ugly, lecherous wife, Maria Luisa of Parma, and her lover, Manuel Godoy, to run the country. Goya became court painter and the lover of the Duchess...
...thousands of innocent investors throughout the U. S. will suffer directly or indirectly. At any rate, if nothing more serious than putting $10,000,000 worth of government bonds temporarily on the list of the assets of the defunct Union Trust of Cleveland can be charged against the famous pair, they will have proven themselves financiers of an exceptional order of morality. The practice is as common as an alley cat, and it's a poor bank indeed that cannot list at least a few government bonds on its balance sheet when call day comes around. WOTAN
...satisfied with this gossamer explanation, I asked to be shown in black and white just how TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears. Her reply here was that TIME was "a smart-alecky and a funny magazine-something like Ballyhoo...
...handsomely decorated with battle pictures, sat the 44 members of the Commission d'enquête sur les événements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France. He heard things last week to make them curl...