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This side of the truth cannot prove objectionable. “You have made my broadcloth look like two-fifty a yard and it really cost four,” was a criticism offered by a young lady who posed in a riding habit. Such practical criticism is frequently necessary to bring the artist down from the top height observatory where he is absorbed with “the big things.”
"Long tam ago when I was little boy, Gaviller come to my fat'er. He say: 'You have plenty good land. You grow wheat and I grind it, and both mak' money. "My fat'er say: 'I got no plow, no binder, no thresher. Gaviller say: 'I bring them in for you. Gaviller say: 'I pay you two-fifty bushel for wheat. I can do it up here. You pay me for the machines a little each year.
It ain't a square deal, but I reckon I can stand it." "I reckon you'll have to. It's neck meat or nothin'," grunted the foreman. Doble counted him out eighty dollars in cattlemen's checks and paid him two-fifty in cash.
"Yes, it is wonderful!" she admitted, with a mock show of being overwhelmingly impressed. "Nobody in the world ever worked ten hours a day before!" "I'm doing more than any man that I pay two-fifty. I do perspire, and if you don't call that earning your bread with the sweat of your brow, why this is an astoundingly illogical world!"
But as the waiter justly noted, in hovering about us with the cutlery and napery while he laid the table, a two-fifty luncheon was unworthy such lords as we. When he began to bring on the delicious omelette, the admirable fish, the excellent cutlets, he made us observe that if we paid three francs we ought to eat a great deal; and there seemed reason in this; at any rate, we did so.
Something zoomed out of a cloud. The action was completely improbable. The thing that appeared looked absolutely commonplace. It was a silver-winged private plane, the sort that cruises at one hundred and seventy-five knots and can hit nearly two-fifty if pushed. It was expensive, but not large.
The subway ruins everything." "I don't care about subways nor nothing," Aaron cried. "I would get you what you want for that house. What would you consider a good price for the house, uncle?" "A very good price would be forty-two two-fifty," Uncle Mosha replied; "but me I would be willing to accept forty thousand." "Well, lookyhere," Aaron commenced; "I'm going to do this for you, Uncle Mosha.
"Make it two-fifty and it's yours." "Couldn't do it. Two or nothing." "All right," said Durkin placidly. "Take it along. Now let me show you " "No, sir!" laughed Steve. "You don't show us another thing, Durkin. Pile the cushions on here, Tom, and take hold." "Wait till I lock this door and I'll give you a lift," said Durkin. Between them they got the chair upstairs and outdoors.
So we piles in, umbrella, pies, and all, and inside of half an hour I've landed the whole shootin' match safe in a two-fifty air-shaft room in one of those punk little ten-story hotels down in the 40's. I showed 'em how to work the electric light switch, got 'em some ice water, and pointed out the fire escape.
I'll mortgage all my real estate, and I'll run up wheat so high before the next two days that the Bank of England can't pull it down; then I'll sell our long line, and with the profits of that I'll run it up again. Two dollars! Why, it will be two-fifty before you know how it happened."
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