| 单词 | merchant |
| 例句 | The merchant was panting heavily from the effort of running backward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The year Buttercup turned ten, the most beautiful woman lived in Bengal, the daughter of a successful tea merchant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The weather was good for the farmers so there was plenty of food to eat, and business was good for the city’s merchants. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Four wore the coats, breeches, powdered wigs, and hats of merchants; one had papers tucked under his arm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Once upon a time there was a wealthy merchant who had three beautiful daughters. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But above all the noise and tumult of the crowd could be heard the merchants’ voices loudly advertising their products. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, do you want him to be tall, dark, fair, a butler, a merchant?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant took his wife in his arms and held her a moment before jabbing an accusatory finger at Baaz. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And he knew that ever and again boys who started working for great merchants became great merchants themselves. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Many aristocrats and wealthy merchants themselves played viols at home, too, sometimes combined in a duet with a plucked lute. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Some several of the new investors were merchant relatives of Mr. Gitney’s, the Young Men whom I had seen about the house in earlier days, but whose presence had never amounted to much. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If he forced them to hold down their costs, he would have to do the same with every merchant, laborer, and farmer doing business in town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The lettuce was consigned to commission merchants in New York at a fine price. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z OPPOSITE: An image of one of the “curiosity cabinets” Maria visited in Amsterdam, belonging to the Dutch East Indies merchant Livinus Vincent. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The merchant rode home as fast as his horse would carry him. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Maryam’s cousin—a merchant of rare furs—knocks on the doctor’s back gate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We move through the Market Quartier, still busy with merchants selling wares better suited to the dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Laborers refused to work, merchants cheated their customers, and brigands ran at large. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Eventually, the merchant had to hire two more employees. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the pyre, the children saw a clutch of nobles standing amid the merchants and Jews who had come from their homes on the north bank. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He was dressed normally, but the practiced eyes of the crystal merchant could see that the boy had no money to spend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Slaves staggered down the gangplank of a merchant ship. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The merchant spent the entire day mumbling behind the counter, telling the boy to be careful with the pieces and not to break anything. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise of rumbling carts laden with creaking cages and barrels of goods, the smells of raw fish and flesh, and the cries of sailors and merchants overwhelmed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A cloaked figure stood where the merchant was certain no one had been a moment earlier. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The guests, primarily, were the extended relations of Mr. Gitney, that sizeable clan of merchants known only as the Young Men, cheerful in demeanor, indeterminate in number. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He left without saying good-bye to the crystal merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had memorized many of the flags from the old wrecks the ship breakers worked, the hulls painted with nation and merchant tags. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The merchant had said those very words, joking. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was all profit with the merchant princes of the Free Cities. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The officers of the town were first, then the ministers, the merchants, the mechanics, and the schoolmasters with their students. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "German battleships and submarines operating in the Atlantic sank 367,800 tons of merchant vessels from March 16 through March 23," says the announcer. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than itself—clothes upon the body of his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was for the same reason, he said, that miners were often paid entirely with two-dollar bills, so that local merchants would realize how important the coal companies were to their businesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The boy was being paid more money than he deserved, because the merchant, thinking that sales wouldn’t amount to much, had offered the boy a high commission rate. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, “I’d like you to work in my shop. Two customers came in today while you were working, and that’s a good omen.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The wink and the comment about her curls, though Beetle didn’t know it, were also gifts from the generous merchant, and they nestled into Beetle’s heart and stayed there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Other merchants were yelling angrily at the customer for falsely accusing the squid merchant. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Sailors and soldiers and tinkers had been observed dancing in the streets with nobles and fat merchants, and in every inn and winesink cups were being raised to the new triarchs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The brass merchant was still rolling on the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He offered a deep finishing bow while the merchant applauded. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I think of the merchant who took Slats, the horse, because Mrs. Strawberry hadn’t paid a bill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir, I wanted to report that we just came from the marketplace and a woman falsely accused a merchant and her husband of being Communist sympathizers,” she said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Then with a great sigh she put it down and turned to bargain with the merchant for the flasks. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant did not raise his voice, but instantly the young clerk was on his threshold. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Just past West Riding, as she was walking up the same road she had taken the night before, she heard a merchant’s wagon coming behind her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not understand the complaints of Mr. 03-01 and his merchant brothers, uncles, nephews, and cousins, the others in the 03 series. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For instance, a merchant marine sailor who knew me and my reputation came into a bar carrying a package. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aunt Seymour isn’t leaving, and we have credit with all the merchants.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so used to being ignored, I almost ran from the first merchant who tried to sell me something. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But finally the merchant appeared, and asked the boy to shear four sheep. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Tanin’s gaze skimmed over beggar children and sailors, servants and merchants, messengers running this way and that in their black caps. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Wealthy merchants built wide walkways leading directly to their stores, while poor ones jostled for room wherever they could find it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The woman carried a letter to André, asking him to come to West Point disguised as a merchant named John Anderson. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hasidic Jewish merchants in their black yarmulkes would stare in shock as Mommy walked in, trailed by five or six of us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the opposite bank was Petronella, the merchant’s daughter, across the stream. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Beware of Qartheen bearing gifts, especially merchants of the Thirteen. There is some trap here. Perhaps these ships are rotten, or...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The demons will let a merchant bring his wife over, but I have to be a partner in the store,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy remembered the crystal merchant who had always wanted to go to Mecca, and the Englishman in search of the alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days from now, he would be with the merchant’s daughter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Odds are given on their ages, whether they're Seam or merchant, if they will break down and weep. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One Delaware merchant particularly galled him: August Carter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There are girls in the Seam, some of the merchant girls, too, who navigate these waters so easily. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Afterward, you want to show your appreciation, but you don’t have the wherewithal to make a substantial gift of money like some wealthy merchant or noble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were no pheasant-shooting proprietors then, to see that the undergrowth was thinned, and not one thousandth part of the number of the present-day timber merchants who prune judiciously at the few remaining woods. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A fish market was coming to life along the avenue, and the shouts of merchants mixed with the caws of seagulls and rumble of steamboats coming in to port. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a merchant’s hand, and still not purchase a single banana. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m glad you think so. There is a wine merchant in Buda-Pesth who sends me a case of it every year.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z That day, the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The soldiers hadn’t even tried to listen to the squid merchant or her husband. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z One of the first things he did was take me out to Portsmouth to one of his Jewish merchant friends, supposedly to “do business,” and introduce me to this man’s son. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the merchant laughed richly, for he was fat and well-fed, and he said, “I have a second son of ten whom I have not betrothed yet. How old is the girl?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Maybe the old merchant’s eyes had betrayed him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, if the intentions of the merchant were not honorable, you’d better believe that she’d be heading in their direction to inform them of their malfeasance and impropriety. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even me—I haven’t thought of other women since I met the merchant’s daughter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing: the girl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach in about four days. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to push and elbow to make any headway, eliciting grumbles from irritated merchants and a shove from a hatchet-faced slaver. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The commands of the monarchs and merchants who organized colonizing fleets were conveyed in writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, many of our grassroots African supporters saw Indians as exploiters of black labor in their role as shopkeepers and merchants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not sway the merchant prince that way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A merchant had given her one nut fresh on its sprig of narrow leaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the daughters often strays away to handle bolts of fabric and talk with the merchants in their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But I do tell her I have to stop by the coal merchant’s to buy a few kilos for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There were merchants advertising their wares, people shouting, strains of music competing for attention. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They featured covered galleries so that merchants could buy and sell even if rain came drumming down; cellars were so large, they resembled underground cities. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Prendergast bought more postcards and sent exuberant notes to the men who soon would be his associates and clubmates—the judges, lawyers, and merchant princes of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Except for some merchants looking for business, no one ventured very far. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were only a few dockworkers milling around, and no big merchant ships. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z And yet the hope that we could start our own little fix-it shop and qualify as merchants steadily grew with the collection of coins in the tin can. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He changed into the warmer clothes and carried the rice in his backpack to a Gilju merchant, who bought it for six thousand won, about six dollars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the first commercial public concerts started taking place in London the net widened to include merchants and tradespeople, a development in which England very much led the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Modern merchants wanting this luxury wool have had to resort either to this same method or simply to killing wild vicunas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I did not understand the measures some took against merchants who still carried British goods. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Before Reginald left, I urged him to leave die merchant marine and I would help him get started in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The merchant was tucking the blossom into his saddlebag when an angry growl stopped him. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Ash went to put the corset into the wardrobe, and said, “I — you could — you could learn a trade. You could apprentice with... a merchant.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, there is Hamilton’s enshrinement of the urban elite—the merchants, bankers, and business leaders—as the central figures in the emergent American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z During the two hours that they talked, she told him she was the merchant’s daughter, and spoke of life in the village, where each day was like all the others. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "A most excellent brass, great lady," the merchant exclaimed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Two days later, the merchant spoke to the boy about the display. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the merchant has clearly done his time in the Martial army because after only a moment, he nods. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Tailors, dressmakers, and merchants try to woo her with free gifts for her ladies, or offer pastries and champagne. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z At sixteen he joined the merchant marine, and his first voyage took him around Cape Horn in the winter: it was his first experience of the Southern Ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He wore the perfectly cut frock coat and vest of all Kerch merchants—dark, refined, deliberately staid. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The merchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demanded that the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not be cheated. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Molasses from French islands would now be too expensive—merchants could never make a profit. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Minli thought as she wandered past stalls, weaving around merchants and customers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z For two months, merchants from cold northern Europe came to trade with businessmen from warm Italy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The rich merchant and his wife wished to take her back with them to Salisbury to care for their son and mayhap perform more miracles; he spoke temptingly of new shoes and a shrine. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the territory of merchants, of tradesmen, of butchers and tanners and brewsters. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The prosperous merchants and busy tradesmen had disappeared, and in their place were coarse women and menacing men, bands of noisy, grimy children and scores of beggars. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Hazel moved into the crowd, checking out the merchants and their carts. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants- for example, to remove the stores’ humiliating racial signs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had remembered that one of the crystal merchant’s suppliers transported his crystal by means of caravans that crossed the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Born to a wealthy family of New England fabric merchants, he had dropped out of school as a teenager. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I stopped by a dried fruit stand, described Hassan to an old merchant loading his mule with crates of pine seeds and raisins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The merchant’s unhealthy, brilliant eyes quivered and glittered. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had seen the beautiful boys who surrounded the merchant prince, flitting through his palace halls in wisps of silk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As he did so, he thought of what the crystal merchant had once said: that anyone could build a pyramid in his backyard. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man was some sort of merchant, Cat concluded after watching him for a few days. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For an outlaw who spent his time pillaging merchant ships and taking the survivors as galley slaves, he was impossibly clean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z To most whites, the reasons for the boycott that was devastating downtown merchants were mysterious at best and mean-spirited at worst. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “I sent him a note from the office. His merchants’ association and the churches have been helping him.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In return, she gave the merchant a silver medallion frpm her belt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In Iraq, the sounds of the national bird, the chucker partridge, play over the speakers discreetly hidden behind the merchant carts offering beautiful silk scarves and shirts. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Fried mung-bean pancake with spicy sauce, wafting in the air with the bricks of pungent soybean paste hawked by a nearby merchant, so strong you could taste it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “The deal is the deal,” said Mister Hertzoon proudly, and they shook hands like proper merchants. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She angrily whipped off some gibberish and the merchants gawked even more. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The lower floor of the Town House was an open promenade and here every day the merchants gathered ‘on ’change.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had told me we would live in the household of Wu Tsing, who was a very rich merchant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So once more he went to that merchant’s counting house on Long Wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For sure he was one of Cold Sassy’s leading merchants. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I can see Hansa, merchant ships, old fishing boats, trawlers, and even dinghies that have brought fleeing people from the nearby lagoon. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The city passes in a blur of gaping Plebeians, muttering auxes, and a riot of merchants and their stalls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The daughter of a well-to-do wine merchant, Rosa toiled in Pittsburgh as a peddler for a clothing firm. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z St Emilion is now secure under his patronage, and the convent prospers as a result of my commerce with the local merchants and farmers, so Mother Ermentrude and the bishop are pleased. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But as Gwen put on her costume — “I am going to be a rich merchant,” she said — Ash only sat quietly in the window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "I know some of these names. These are rich men. Traders, merchants, craftsmen. Why should they conspire against us?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z First come merchants, potentates, and artisans of the City Erhenrang, rank after rank, magnificently clothed, advancing through the rain as comfortably as fish through the sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Night fell, and an assortment of fighting men and merchants entered and exited the tent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "There's folks gathering in the square, Y'Grace, asking to take refuge in the castle. Not a mob, rich merchants and the like." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Royal relatives, ministers, and titled courtiers from high houses and merchant houses crowd the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This merchant directed me to a dealer who sold me a serviceable horse. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The other merchants on the block would do the same. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt again the vigorous, squirming, wonderful aliveness of the merchant’s son as he wriggled into her hands. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath is Justice, brandishing a golden sword and scales, standing between Death and Punishment, and treading underfoot Avarice and Envy, the gods of the merchants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One day the merchant had to leave on a journey. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Some time after General Benedict Arnold took command in Philadelphia, he sent for Joseph Stansbury, a local merchant who was despised by Patriots. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He read the name of the merchant’s daughter, which he hadn’t even known, and he read things he had never told anyone. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The train station smelled like roasting pistachios from the old Turkish merchant outside, and burnt rubber from the train braking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The day before yesterday I was still an unkempt beggar; yesterday I already kissed Kamala and soon I will be a merchant and have money and all those things which you value.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z A smart count in the Champagne region of France guaranteed the safety of any merchant coming to sell or trade at the markets in the lord’s lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I need to sell some wool,” the boy told the merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "I have been told,” the merchant began, "that you are a Brahmin, a learned man, but that you seek service with a merchant. Are you then in need, Brahmin, that you seek service?” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed a certain merchant who followed her hungrily, his lips loose and drooling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1900, at age twenty-six, he had risen in the ranks of the merchant service, carrying mail and cargo around the British Empire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His own father, my grandfather, was a fairly prosperous merchant who owned a store in Sarpsborg and traded in just about everything from cheese to chicken-wire. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z With Gertrude’s money, I could marry a nobleman or buy a merchant’s wares and set up my own shop. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Our merchants bought that man, and brought him to Egypt. All of us know that whoever believes in dreams also knows how to interpret them.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And yet you are a merchant who deals in rice?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z "Eyes down, all right? Both of you. You're merchants now, not such an esteemed birth." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In Selma’s business district, white merchants came out of their stores and watched in silence. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The men of the oasis wanted to know if they had seen any fighting, and the women competed with one another for access to the cloth and precious stones brought by the merchants. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant balanced the porcelain cup on his knee. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘My boy,’ said the merchant, ‘you have—ah-—brought me great news. I must see your cup.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant describes an already thriving sea trade connecting India and Egypt with the coast of East Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In much of Indonesia the merchants are Chinese immigrants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But he wanted to know what the “mysterious force” was; the merchant’s daughter would be impressed when he told her about that! The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want to go to work for me?” the merchant asked. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It may seem odd that I was constantly buying materials for my artificing over the river, but the truth was merchants near the University frequently took advantage of the students’ laziness and raised their prices. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So Baba proved them all wrong by not only running his own business but becoming one of the richest merchants in Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps some of the merchants were a little generous in their trades, but I always attributed that to their long-standing relationship with my father. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert just to see the Pyramids,” said the merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He personally knew several merchants who had been killed in their stores, all by blacks, and he knew of others who had shot or killed someone trying to rob them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In her mind she saw Magister Reese’s spotted face and kind eyes, heard Jennet’s merry voice, and smelled the rich perfumed robes of the merchant from Salisbury. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Germany was sinking over a thousand Allied merchant ships every year, killing many sailors and destroying a vast tonnage of Allied supplies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Or such-and-such a merchant had wept when haled before the Liberty Tree and sworn never to do trade with England until all grievances had been righted. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband, an Aragonese merchant by whom she had two children, spent half the value of his store on medicines and pastimes in an attempt to alleviate her terror. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Even when all you want to do is travel? Or marry the daughter of a textile merchant?” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchants along the main street claimed he had received a large legacy and was a very rich man. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Actually, he was thinking about shearing his sheep in front of the merchant’s daughter, so that she could see that he was someone who was capable of doing difficult things. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Plenty of Martials roam the south as merchants, mercenaries, and craftsmen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The merchants live above their businesses, so I was essentially in their backyards. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But the merchant understood what the boy had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I fled down an alley, past dark curtained shops and merchants washing the grime off their windows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them were merchants who saw the war as an annoyance that interfered with trade. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "Right, exactly. So if you want light, you have to buy it from a merchant who gets it from those towers. You have to go to the Light Market." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He pretended to be a merchant named Timothy Jones. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother's parents were part of the small merchant class that caters to officials, Peacekeepers, and the occasional Seam customer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On one earlier assignment he’d been a French merchant; on another an Arab businessman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A half hour later, dusk drops over the city of Serra, and I am following the Tribesman swiftly through the Mercator Quarter, home to the wealthiest members of the Martial merchant class. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Mayor knows, for he told the merchants of the city that the budget would be cut down, that no new taxes would be imposed to satisfy the clamor of the masses of the needy! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They did not come into substantial contact with Europeans until the sixteenth century, when Russian fur merchants overturned their governments, established military outposts throughout the region, and demanded furs in tribute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You came here as a merchants son,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Rab would have been exactly the same if he had been the son of the wealthiest merchant or the poorest tinker in Boston, Johnny would not. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The city seemed coldhearted to her—merchants were ruthless in their dealings and masters callous to their servants, and all called her naive when she objected. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and gave a hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A beautiful courtesan was my teacher for a long time, and a rich merchant and a dice player. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a merchant ship, and a first mate in love with the captain’s daughter. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And of course the merchants there wanted cattle to ship down to New York where there was a need for beef. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are probably other things in the world that the sheep can’t teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all there—bankers, lawyers, judges, doctors, fire chiefs, teachers, merchants. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung was pleased at her strength, although he cared nothing for festivities on this year, and he sent Cuckoo in to beseech Liu, the grain merchant, seeing how sad the case was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She accused the squid merchant of being a Communist sympathizer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z When they arrived in the City, the merchant dropped her off at the Square, where a dozen men and women were cleaning up the remains of the bonfire from the night before. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she didn’t dare look up, she heard the merchant’s soft sighs of awe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The merchants of Boston had for some decades made some portion of their fortunes through smuggling, the Young Men of the Gitney family being, in this respect, no exception. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Are the refugees coming here?” a merchant lady asked. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Another wink and the merchant turned to his next customer. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For the merchant's part, when Koffi looked at him, he was chuckling into his tea. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the new regime, economic power passed to a new class of people: merchants who exchanged salt, chocolate, and cotton from Chichen Itza for a host of goods from elsewhere in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the merchant decided to delay his lunch for a few minutes until the boy moved on. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, round the King's castle, there were streets—not just one street—and castles of dependent barons, and monasteries, chapels, churches, cathedrals, markets, merchants’ houses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited patiently for the merchant to awaken and open the shop. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After Mama burned him, Papi said a captain in the merchant marines took pity on him and doctored his papers so they’d say he was injured during an explosion on board. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The crystal merchant awoke with the day, and felt the same anxiety that he felt every morning. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z King George II, ignoring French claims to the Ohio River valley, had given permission for colonizing the area to the Ohio Company, a group of Virginia landowners and London merchants. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, late that summer, a fabric merchant fell asleep and forgot to put out his cigarette. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z At the fairs, merchants could trust the weights and measures, and a strict order prevailed for how things were to be sold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Even if he’s only a wealthy merchant, he’ll still make a good patron.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The merchant said, ‘My boy, you must have been rattled. Surely you can do better than that.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind her, the merchants who had gathered to support her were all holding some kind of food item at the ready. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Saturday before Christmas, we go shopping in the open air mercado for roasted pig, avocados, guava paste, and ripe plantains for pIátanos maduros, the different merchants calling out their wares from their stands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z This 1640 painting by Jacob Marrel is from a catalog used by flower merchants to advertise newly cultivated varieties for sale. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Let us examine pond water for algae. Van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to have seen what you will see today. He was a wool merchant, much as I was a cotton merchant.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Your mother on her deathbed told you you were related to the rich Boston merchant?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny found one does not step into a great merchant’s counting house and see the merchant as easily as one steps into a shop and sees the master artisan. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The master of the Shadow was a big man, and fat, in a red cloak trimmed with pellawi-fur such as Andradean merchants wear. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Girard was a rich Frenchman with a finger in every pie; he was a merchant, an importer, and a banker. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "You could hire an army of common sellswords for half the price, and that's for a merchant. I don't dare think what they might ask for a princess." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Indians “died in heapes as they lay in their houses,” the merchant Thomas Morton observed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As she cried out and clutched her hand, the brass merchant let out a shriek, a woman screamed, and suddenly the Qartheen were shouting and pushing each other aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I showed him the spice merchants and the vegetable stalls and the man with the basket of cobras. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He told us, too, how he’d lasted only one morning in the nickel mines before joining the merchant marines. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. O’Flanagan was the assistant manager of the gin and a former merchant sailor, and he loved having a bird around. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Waterside, merchants wheedled and cajoled customers, hoping to lure them into their shops. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It may be your palate will be some help to Cotter Pyke when merchant galleys come trading. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The squid merchant is not a Communist sympathizer. Why did you say that?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Except for its enormous ornamental shrubs pruned into the shapes of wide-skirted maidens, it might have been the home of any not-so-prosperous merchant. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z British colonists’ ships set out directly from New York and New England carrying the food and timber that the islands needed, trading them for sugar, which the merchants brought back up the coast. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then the merchant said with great good humor, “And so I have such need of a sharp young man, if he reads and writes.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Some ships are docked at the palace pier—alive with light and late-night merchants and markets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He had no qualifications to recommend him, but there was at least a chance he could hire onto a merchant convoy and work his way there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When Slash was just fourteen, the merchant ship he worked on was destroyed in a storm. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The merchant explained that he had promised his daughter a rose after a long journey. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He said he was a merchant with business in Boston, New York, and Charleston, and complained about how much the Boston uprising cost him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The other guests—knights and generals, scholars of history, a few artists and merchants—went to take their seats, too. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The people on this deck hold bundles, and some have jackets embroidered with merchant house emblems like mine. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z At last the merchants came, some striding down King Street, rosy-faced, double-chinned, known and greeted by everyone, apparently knowing and greeting everyone in return. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Chamber of Commerce improved its gardens, the merchants each gave five dollars but Dora was asked for and gave a hundred. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lots of places sell tea around here,” the merchant said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can give you the money you need to get back to your country, my son,” said the crystal merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z While the merchant was trying to explain himself, Alice got on the horse and rode him back to Mrs. Strawberry. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dutch companies dispatched merchant ships daily to all corners of the globe, so Amsterdam was flooded with such objects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The book showed how useful Arabic numerals were for doing complex calculations, and the Italian merchants and bankers quickly seized upon the new system, zero included. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It was felt that it would be easier to integrate stores in Durham,” Moore explained, “because the merchants would not want the publicity attendant to a long boycott.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Hugo joined the merchant marines at sixteen and on his first trip went to Dakar, where the markets were filled with monstrous fruits grown in soils of uncommon minerals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no street vendors here, nor prosperous merchants, only sullen wives emptying their slop jars into the street, sometimes missing the scrawny, shoeless children playing there, sometimes not. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Two days ago, you said that I had never dreamed of travel,” the merchant answered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But she knew where he was: out selling items to black market merchants. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Let’s go and have some lunch,” said the crystal merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But for a finely wrought incense burner commissioned by a wealthy merchant as a gift to the temple, the clay might be drained twice or even three times. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They talked about merchants, and deserters, and levies, and not enough salt to last the winter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘You don’t know. If a Southern merchant made a lot of money on tobacco, I think he might name his daughter ... Tobacco.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard Clement of the BSC rejected an attempt by merchants to settle the dispute before their most lucrative period. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the two men laughed together and the merchant said, “Shall we tie ourselves together with a double rope?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The merchant rummaged about in the back of his stall and produced a small oaken cask. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The city had one of the busiest harbors in the colonies, with merchant ships heading to the Caribbean and Europe and all corners of the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He signed on as a merchant seaman, and in 1953, when he was nineteen, his ship docked at Norfolk, Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Ben smiled and said, “Don’t worry about the last one. He’s too curious for a merchant.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Down in the city, a merchant peddles his wares, the singsong strains of his voice reaching even here. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He went down the stairs and found the merchant waiting on a foreign couple, while two other customers walked about the shop, drinking tea from crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in a small village built right up to the road, a way station for merchants. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And then I notice that the coal merchant has a watch on. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I don’t care what a Jew is professionally, doctor, merchant, housewife, student, or whatever—first he, or she, thinks Jew. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant’s glittering black eyes did not waver, nor the tallow cheeks redden. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His name was Israel Israel, a reserved, forty-seven-year-old tavern keeper and merchant. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She’s nearsighted, but somehow she’s able to pick out the differences between the fruit vendors and the vegetable vendors, the faces of the various merchants, who has money and who doesn’t. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The merchant was silent for a few moments. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Bear pointed out London, Flemish, and Italian merchants, identifying them by their particular garb or badges. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The boy felt a pang in his heart, thinking about the merchant’s daughter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As they sat down at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He went the next day into the town and to the house of the merchant and he said, “My daughter is thirteen years old and no longer a child and she is fit for marriage.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She pleaded for “our right to the Avenue,” and she convinced the local board of trade, chamber of commerce, merchants’ association, and other community groups to back her. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A merchant marine officer named Frank Worsley, a part-Maori New Zealander who had been a sailor since the age of sixteen, was to captain the ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This poor Sufi dressed in rags walked into a jewelry store owned by a rich merchant and asked him, “Do you know how you’re going to die?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The merchant is rich, and so was Smyrna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “They are drawn from several of the Colonies. They are, for the most part, merchants, the owners of some few plantations ... rice, tobacco.... They have been most generous in their funding.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She received the merchant prince alone, seated on her bench of polished ebony, on the cushions Ser Barristan had brought her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Because we have to respond to omens,” the boy said, almost without meaning to; then he regretted what he had said, because the merchant had never met the king. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Political power was in the hands of the merchants, who actively promoted the technology on which their prosperity depended. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if things keep going from bad to worse, you won’t have this job very long. Our merchant ships will be wiped off the seas.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On any given day, its harbors were thronged with merchants, scholars and tourists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We snaked our way among the merchants and the beggars, wandered through narrow alleys cramped with rows of tiny, tightly packed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, a sleek merchant on a grey mare reined up by Yoren and offered to buy his wagons and everything in them for a quarter of their worth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z These days, all the neighborhood merchants hate her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The gold that she had squandered to open the doors of the Hall of a Thousand Thrones was largely a product of the merchant's generosity and quick wits. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sheep, the merchant’s daughter, and the fields of Andalusia were only steps along the way to his Personal Legend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The bazaar was emptying quickly, the merchants finishing up their haggling for the day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Major Clark, as director of the most important Philadelphia spy network, gave many of his agents the cover of farmer or merchant. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Farm wagons and merchants' carts and riders from lesser houses moved aside to let them pass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z To help the wine merchants out, Kepler chopped up the barrels—in his mind—into an infinite number of infinitely tiny pieces, and then added them back together again to yield their volumes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The merchant reached deep into it and brought out a cocoon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Maybe the merchant wives came here to scrub the floors and walls and windows, to honor Ghezen, the god of industry and commerce, with soap and water and the chafing of their hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z YOUTH—-Perry joined the merchant Marines in second war. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Men and women from merchant houses enter, displaying their families' wares on their clothes, in their hair, or even embedded in their skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, he stopped his work, for he and his wife, Odile, were invited to a wine tasting at Matthews’, one of Cambridge’s better wine merchants. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The merchant put some new coals in the hookah, and inhaled deeply. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the City walls the merchants had decorated their shops with pine boughs and winterberries, and the bright sunlight reflected off freshly polished shop windows. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Often these were cash-strapped independent merchants and laborers, and I was always surprised by the joy she took in saving a few dollars at their expense. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I can make that scar go away,” one of the merchants called to Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He thanked God for making him believe in his Personal Legend, and for leading him to meet a king, a merchant, an Englishman, and an alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a horse-drawn cart. Donated by a Victorian merchant named George Moore to ‘diffuse good literature among the rural population.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z That was when she realized that all the sounds she normally associated with a city—the noise of wagon wheels and beggars and merchants hawking their wares—were absent here. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Siddhartha went to see Kamaswami, the merchant, and was shown into a rich house. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is all very fine," admitted Kamaswami reluctantly, "but you are in fact a merchant. Or were you only travelling for your pleasure?” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Doha was close enough to see the horror on the merchant lady’s face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z If this merchant couple did agree to a patronage, it would add not only prestige but new revenue for the zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The day before, his merchant ship had put into port over in New Jersey. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually the citizens of Wethersfield claimed their orders, the merchants from Hartford counted off the barrels of nails and oil and salt and only a handful of idlers still stood about. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In that alternate life, she would never have forgotten to secure Diko’s lead, and he would never have attacked the merchant’s wife. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "His goods I gift to you as well, Princess," the merchant captain-went on. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Twenty-four letters reached the stockbroker at his home in Sharon, and of those, sixteen were given to him by the same person, a clothing merchant Milgram calls Mr. Jacobs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant looked at her, then at me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “For generations the merchants here created beautiful handcrafted paper.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The Gallup merchants raised prices in motels and restaurants all Ceremonial week, and made a lot of money off the tourists. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The merchant had been asking ten pennies for half a pound of salt, fifteen for a loaf of sugar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She knew the merchant prince too well to think that he would sacrifice thirteen of his own ships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His father, who worked as a store merchant, court clerk, and bank cashier, remarried five years after his wife's death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Beekman and merchants like him shipped flour, bread, corn, salted beef, and wood to the Caribbean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As they passed the stalls of seafood vendors, a fight broke out between a merchant and a customer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Carriages, carts, and wagons carrying merchants, goods for sale, and travelers—the outside world—passed by the parsonage every day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z No sound from the bazaars, no arguments among the merchants, no men climbing to the towers to chant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone understood except for the sandy-haired merchant’s son, who was too groggy to understand much of anything. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The traders brought these things up the river from New York and sold them to merchants at towns along the way, like Verplancks Point. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought of the merchant’s daughter, and was sure that she had probably married. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I might apprentice myself to a merchant in New Haven or New York, or even London, to learn the art of trade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although seemingly he had tried every shop in Boston in search of a new master, he had not tried the merchants. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And remembering Kamala’s words, he was never servile to the merchant, but compelled him to treat him as an equal and even more than his equal. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z His father had died of stomach cancer; his mother had gone to live in Fresno, where Kabuo’s sister had married a furniture merchant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Most of the spectators, she noticed, were not of the city: she saw sailors off trading ships, merchants come by caravan, dusty men out of die red waste, wandering soldiers, craftsmen, slavers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But, by then, you’ll be a rich merchant, with many camels and a great deal of merchandise. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the covered portico Lefty saw a merchant he knew. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I finally sent a letter to Bailey, who was at sea with the merchant marine. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not treat the rich foreign merchant differently from the servant who shaved him and the peddlers, from whom he bought bananas and let himself be robbed of small coins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re too far away from the city, the grimy little shops, the sweat merchants they used to be and know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There were silk merchants and spice merchants and jewellers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Late in the evening the merchants of the bazaar hear him weeping in the rear alcove, as they shutter their stalls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Any merchant who advertises ‘Honest Scales’ must have been thinking about weighting them,” she says. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Italian merchants sometimes sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to Syria, where they could buy black pepper that had been grown on the southwest coast of India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Lemore had changed out of her septa’s robes into garb more befitting the wife or daughter of a prosperous merchant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They walked it in circles several times, letting the merchant and his wife admire the shiny black spikes running down the length of its back, each one sharp enough to draw blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Doha and Yuni watched as the soldiers started to tie the merchant’s hands together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He was Hoede’s personal Squaller and often traveled with the merchant’s most precious cargos, guaranteeing favorable winds to bring the ships safely and quickly to harbor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "I am not worthy of this vin-tage, my lord. And it's a poor wine merchant who drinks up his own wares." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The boy had been working for the crystal merchant for almost a month, and he could see that it wasn’t exactly the kind of job that would make him happy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny decided he would start at the top of the merchants and work down, only, of course, skipping Merchant Lyte. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the cloak of extreme secrecy, Soviet merchant ships began ferrying R-12 medium-range nuclear missile parts, launchers, and technicians to Cuba. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men’s hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There, visiting pilgrims, knights at arms, merchants, and minstrels gathered, each awaiting the attention of the Prior. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He introduced him to the cream of goblin society, and to dancers, singers, painters, schoolteachers, and merchants with an amateur love of history, the kindest and most curious people he knew in Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The merchant’s attempts to convince Siddhartha that he was eating his, Kamaswami’s, bread were also in vain. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way out of camp, Hazel bought him an espresso drink and a cherry muffin from Bombilo the two-headed coffee merchant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “You and I aren’t like Hassan, that rich merchant. If he makes a buying mistake, it doesn’t affect him much. But we two have to live with our mistakes.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Want something, mister?” a white merchant said as I passed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It shouldn’t be hard to find where the merchant ships were docked. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The merchant didn’t respond, but that afternoon, after saying his prayers and closing the shop, he invited the boy to sit with him and share his hookah, that strange pipe used by the Arabs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On market days, traveling merchants and local farmers came from miles around, selling everything from bolts of cloth to scented soaps and balls of twine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There had been a time when many people knew of his shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldiers who were always well-heeled. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchant passed on to him the writing of important letters and orders, and grew accustomed to conferring with him about all important affairs. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “A horse has an honest smell. That is more than can be said of some great lords and merchant princes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pedro Tercero found out about his existence and had an attack of jealousy that was unwarranted if one compares the influence he had on Blanca with the timid siege of the Jewish merchant. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How do they find enough merchants to work with them? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Congratulations, sir, on having an educated man on board. Not the usual thing on a—a—merchant ship, you know.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like to build a display case for the crystal,” the boy said to the merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind this common burial ground the rough face of the cliff was honeycombed with the better tombs of artisans and scribes and merchants, carved into the rock itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “It’s some merchant couple visiting from the Baridi Region,” he said. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Gesture with the whole hand like a fish merchant? The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The mines weren’t an option, what with a baby to look after, but she managed to get laundry from some of the merchants in town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The merchant answered, “No. No one knows how they’re going to die.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Who knows . . . maybe it’s better to be like the crystal merchant: never go to Mecca, and just go through life wanting to do so, he thought, again trying to convince himself. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One hint is in an ancient book of sailors’ directions, the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written by an anonymous merchant living in Egypt around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was also the merchant’s daughter, but she wasn’t as important as his flock, because she didn’t depend on him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “How could this be mine? I am not an artist! I am nothing! I’m a penniless merchant, a prisoner! A shell! A windup toy!” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Of how fighters raided the caravans of the Martial merchant class, the Mercators, and assassinated members of their upper class, the Illustrians. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Since that morning in the marketplace, he had never again made use of Urim and Thummim, because Egypt was now just as distant a dream for him as was Mecca for the merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days after Char left, Father went too, off to be a merchant again. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A handful of Lordsport merchants had gathered to meet the ship. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was proud because he had three sons and one was a scholar and one a merchant and one a farmer. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Here on Long Wharf, merchants’ counting houses were closed and shuttered, sail lofts deserted, the riggers and porters stood idle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The merchants were assembling their stalls, and the boy helped a candy seller to do his. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the original home stood in the middle with various additions, rooms, and wings stacked and piled around it, like a merchant trying to carry too many bags at once. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Shortly after Robinson took over as president of the WPC in 1950, she led a successful campaign to make white merchants include the titles “Mr.,” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z From where he stood, he saw for the first time that the old merchant’s hair was very much like the hair of the old king. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the leather traders, who came from as far as Spain, and the fur merchants, whose goods might come from Russia, filled the tables with piles of hides and pelts. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Reginald, the one who had always looked up to me, had gotten big enough to fake his age, and he was planning soon to enter the merchant marine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Towns that needed more than a house raft to get to die merchants of Medallion. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Ivanito knows his father is a merchant marine and sails around the world. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z U.S. submarines played a critical role in sinking 1,113 Japanese merchant ships and 201 warships, starving Japanese troops and industry of what they needed to wage war. ‘The War Below:’ subs’ role in WWII’s U.S.-Japan conflict 2013-08-24T15:12:17Z She watched the scales “with the rigour of a diamond merchant counting his carats”, according to her social secretary Tish Baldrige. Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z While a few nonhuman merchants and craftsmen are tolerated, pogroms are common, and a few human radicals wouldn’t mind getting rid of the nonhumans altogether. Video Game Review: Exploring Moral Consequences, the Obvious and the Unintended 2011-06-21T21:39:34Z Dr. Carolyn Ling is a second-generation physician whose grandfather came to the United States in 1882 from southern China and set himself up as a merchant on Mott Street, in Manhattan. The American Thanksgiving 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z SAT More than 60 vendors including designers, showrooms, merchants; food trucks, entertainment; benefits local design industry merchants and Seattle Children's PlayGarden, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2012-09-05T23:07:04Z It was presented to Charles II on his restoration to the British throne, by a group of Dutch merchants led by Johannes Klencke. The Klencke Atlas 2010-05-11T08:12:00Z "This collection has been misunderstood and misinterpreted, dismissed as jewellery for the merchant classes," Forsyth said. Cheapside Hoard of 17th-century jewels set to dazzle at Museum of London 2013-06-04T14:40:41Z For more tree-gazing, go to the Whaling Museum, which houses 80 trees decorated by local artists, merchants, and kids. These American Cities and Towns Have the Most Holiday Spirit 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z His father was a merchant marine captain with whom he sailed all over the world on his summer vacations. Ra?l Ruiz, Prolific Director of Cryptic Films, Dies at 70 2011-08-20T00:24:58Z For retail, that means visiting the best wine shops near you instead of supermarkets and soliciting advice from merchants. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Wexler attended the University of California, Berkeley, but dropped out after a year and joined the merchant marine. Haskell Wexler, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 93 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The term is widely understood to refer to manual work by Jews, rejecting centuries of work Jews did in the Diaspora as merchants and shopkeepers. Israel’s First Prime Minister Was Complicated. So Is This Book About His Life. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Jefferson’s drinking was moderate at best: three glasses per night, or, as New York wine merchant Theodorus Bailey observed, he drank “to the digestive point and no further.” Even Thomas Jefferson's most lavish White House banquets had the common touch 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Located on what was, centuries ago, the edge of the city, it used to house inns that would fill with traveling merchants. Europe, in 9 Walks 2013-04-19T14:51:25Z The brick and mortar merchant’s bankruptcy filing has been attributed to overexpansion, the rise of online shopping and increasing concern over the effects of disposable fashion on the environment. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The beautiful young man stands out from the same rich blue background as the German merchants, and appears in profile in a round frame, like an emperor on a Roman coin. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In 1833 Tudor was approached by Samuel Austin, a merchant of silks and spices, to ship ice to Calcutta, modern-day Kolkata, 16,000 miles away, as ballast to add weight to his empty ships. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z On my dad's side, my grandfather was in the merchant navy. "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Wainwright recalled being approached recently by a curious Korean merchant. Front Row: What the Jetsons Will Really Be Wearing 2013-12-04T21:00:18Z They tried to convince other merchants in the neighborhood, but didn’t get many other takers. My $200,000 Sushi Dinner 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “It’s a fourth generation company that provides architecture tours along the Chicago River,” said Mr. Agra, who obtained a merchant mariner credential while working for the company. A Mermaid Finds Her Captain 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The muse whispers into the ear of Caeneus, once an argonaut questing for the golden fleece, now second mate on a 1940s Danish merchant vessel schlepping paper pulp to Turkey. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z But the power isn't necessarily political, it could be for status, such as the map of a merchant's estate. Art of maps 2010-04-30T09:48:00Z Townsend did much of his snooping from his merchant family’s store in Manhattan, which he managed. A Long Island House Holds the Story of Washington’s Spy Ring 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z By the mid-18th century, though, these Venetian aristocrats and merchants were living public lives, inviting attention in salons and cafes, putting on a show at the opera and in church. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Gross profit is the money Groupon makes after paying merchants their cut of a deal. Groupon IPO may be delayed by SEC inquiry 2011-07-27T21:06:00Z Mr. Lockard’s ancestors, prosperous Philadelphia merchants, may have bought the paintings from the artist. Antiques: Mystery at Drayton Hall: The Hunt for a Watercolor 2010-07-15T22:01:00Z Enterprising merchants from the Gujarati bania caste within South Africa’s Indian community created takeaway counters to serve makeshift lunches to laborers. In Durban, South Africa, 13 Curry Stops in 5 Days 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Just like any parent, I'm grateful that our local merchants like my children and think they're cute. Motherlode Blog: Candy Cane Scrooge 2012-12-21T16:36:02Z Watch enough episodes and you’ll also get ideas on how to negotiate the best deals without insulting flea market merchants, not to mention learning a thing or two about the psychology of sales. Smart Watch: Not all reality TV is trash! These unscripted shows are actually useful 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z "They arrive with gold and depart with pepper," so said Indian merchants. 'At Home': Bill Bryson constructs a history of private life 2010-10-06T23:05:00Z Spice merchants from Central Asia line one corridor, offering cumin, saffron and secretive concoctions used in plov, a dish akin to rice pilaf. | Explorer: Unforgettable Foods, from Austrian Apricots to Parisian Butter 2011-09-30T19:03:18Z Having done "all right" at school, Cook studied engineering at South Shields College and joined the merchant navy, leaving his parents and a sister behind in Newcastle. Comedian puts Hebburn on TV map 2012-10-02T13:20:33Z Now I am buying African block-print shirts and pants in a riot of colors and patterns from an African street merchant. Men Shop in Bulk 2011-12-28T22:05:57Z Wtewael also was a wealthy flax merchant, an investor, a prominent citizen of Utrecht and an important player in the religious and political life of his home town. For this Dutch master, a cigar is rarely just a cigar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Trave investigates the murder of the niece of a diamond merchant known for rescuing Jews from Nazi-occupied Belgium. Book Talk: Diamonds inspire Tolkien grandson's novel 2011-03-10T11:33:30Z “Items like receipts, correspondence with the hotel or merchant, or website screen grabs that detail the experience promised, as well as written descriptions and photos, are helpful in conducting the review.” How to Pivot From a Dud of a Destination 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Keegan explores that dark thread in an oblique way, through the eyes of a merchant, who has daughters at home and is shaken when he discovers that nuns are abusing girls in their care. Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z European colonial segregation dates at least as far back as the Middle Ages, when English colonists in Ireland and Italian merchants in the eastern Mediterranean reserved separate parts of overseas colonial towns for themselves. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z The city also knew how to draw wealth from those waters, as Venetian merchant ships spanned the seas. Venice has the battle against extreme weather down to a fine art 2012-11-12T15:37:27Z The wing’s anchor is “American Enterprise,” a chronological overview of business history that begins in 1770 with the merchant era and continues to the global era of today. What can an old wooden cart teach us about American ingenuity? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Securities and Exchange Commission — though it tends to use the merchant model more often for hotel bookings and the agency model more often for flight reservations. Allegation in Hunters’ indictment raises issue of how Expedia charges appear on bank statements 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z A London merchant and a courtesan are brought together by the discovery of a dead mermaid in this debut novel. New in Paperback: ‘These Truths’ and ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z DEFENSE: When a merchant or a bank asks if you want to be charged in dollars, always choose the local currency. Heads up: Defend yourself against 21st-century travel scams 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z There is usually a processing fee for each purchase, typically paid by the merchant. Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z The Prince William County town, about 25 miles south of the District, is a quaint community of about 1,000 filled with rich history, eclectic architecture and dozens of local merchants. In Occoquan, Va., there’s plenty to do — and there’s chocolate 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The merchant goes to the trouble of making her own chorizo and chimichurri, but she knows that some things can’t be improved upon. Review | With restaurant meal kits, you become the sous-chef 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z It depicts a vibrant parade of people in the neighborhood who are walking past merchants and shops, including a newsstand with a magazine that features partial female nudity. Inside Rand Corp.'s impressive art collection 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z And shoppers ducked into the small stores that share a main street with a 17th-century merchant’s house and an 18th-century town hall building that once served as a customhouse. Medieval meets modern in charming Kilkenny, Ireland 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The term “bundle” refers to the large bales that local merchants buy from wholesalers. How Malaysia Got in on the Secondhand Clothing Boom 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z He never met his father, Seymour, a jute merchant in India who sent his wife, Muriel, home to England to deliver their child and who died shortly after his son was born. Michael Langham, Classical Theater Director, Dies at 91 2011-01-20T05:56:02Z Even when the moderates among Boston’s merchants had been satisfied by compromises with George III and the British Parliament, he fueled more radical ambitions for independence. Museum Review: Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Reopens With New Exhibits 2012-07-03T21:40:13Z Such stories are always followed with a plea to “donors, military experts and weapons merchants.” Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z The resulting Aleppo pepper shortage in the United States came just as the salty-sweet, mildly hot chile was becoming well-known among American chefs, restaurateurs, cookbook authors and spice merchants. The Long Journey of the Aleppo Pepper 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z He presented his currency to merchants as payment for goods and services. J.S.G. Boggs, Artist, Dies at 62; He Made Money. Literally. 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z She was a sailor’s daughter, raised on a farm, clever but flighty in her youth, a pretty, provincial flirt who married a wealthy merchant. Secrets of a power marriage: The Disraelis were the Clintons of their time 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z He said there is a grace period until the end of the year, during which time there will be no prosecution of companies and merchants selling bleach creams with hydroquinone. What Is the Color of Beauty? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z But because Related needs these merchants as much as it needs their rents, it incentivized their deals, as is standard practice, and in some cases invested in their businesses. If You Gild It, Will They Come? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z These days, only a dozen or so merchants continue to set up their small portable stalls for the thrice-weekly market, selling postcards and old letters as well as stamps. In Paris, Passion Battles the Decline of Stamp Collecting 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z His character, Johnny Lambert, is a merchant seaman who meets a white woman while on shore leave. Earl Cameron, pioneering British film actor, dies at 102 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z "But at this date the merchants were among the wealthiest people in the land; they had far more disposable wealth than the aristocracy." Cheapside Hoard of 17th-century jewels set to dazzle at Museum of London 2013-06-04T14:40:41Z Mass merchants like Wal-Mart have pushed the book heavily in their stores, and large orders from churches and ministry groups are growing steadily. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z By comparison, the crisis in the opera house’s “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg,” as it’s billed, may seem teacup-sized: This is an opera about 16th-century German merchants squabbling over rules of creativity. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Cash-paying customers who pay a suggested donation of $20 for a three-course meal are also welcome at the restaurant, which sources ingredients from its own organic gardens, with natural foods also donated by local merchants. Rocker Bon Jovi opens charity restaurant 2011-10-20T16:22:15Z In this mixed-up fairytale Davies, the merchant prince of Fenchurch Street, was restored to his city kingdom and his wicked mother was hissed all the way back to Wales. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z First the Teutonic Knights, a medieval military order, and then the German peasantry rose up against exploitation by the merchant class, of which Fugger was the figurehead. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Institutions from Sandhurst to merchant banks might be operating a form of verbal apartheid. Is it wrong for a person to change their accent? 2013-04-20T16:59:01Z This is a grim and painful reality — not only in Belgium — but the Dardennes are too committed to the dignity of their characters to set themselves up as merchants of despair. ‘Two Days, One Night,’ From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Its dedicated website offers an illustrated map with descriptions of the merchants. A beacon of Christmas tradition in Strasbourg, France 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Williams’s impressive research is presented with a light touch throughout, bringing the reader into the amusing daily lives of English tradesmen, workers, merchants, clergymen, as well as their wives and daughters. When reading a book was a group activity 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Producers sell to the new merchants of cotton: global retailers such as Gap and Adidas. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Sumatra’s strategic location and its wealth of natural resources, including gold and pepper, made it a natural trading crossroads for Indian and Chinese merchants. Review: A Long Parade of Cultures Leaves a Rich Trail in the Art of Sumatra 2010-08-04T14:00:00Z Both of Anne’s parents died by the time she was seventeen, and, soon after, she married Henry Lock, the son of another wealthy merchant family with Protestant sympathies. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empireby Andrea Stuart Behind the great wealth of planters lay the "triangle merchants" who motivated the slave trade between Britain, Africa and the West Indies. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z Much of Muybridge's most famous work was undertaken in the US, but he was born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames in 1830, the son of a grain and coal merchant. Eadweard Muybridge's motion towards Tate Britain 2010-04-27T17:13:00Z His French Canadian father, Jean, parlayed his experience cooking on merchant marine ships during the war into a series of restaurant jobs. John Perreault, Critic, Artist and Poet, Dies at 78 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Started as something of a crossroads trading post, local merchants first gathered to showcase their wares. Jesse Sykes sweetens West Seattle Summer Fest 2010-07-08T23:31:00Z The first involves the arrival — in August 2010 — of the merchant vessel Sun Sea at Equimalt naval base in British Columbia, carrying hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers. Seeking Asylum but Finding Heartbreak 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z What, for instance, was it like to be a beef baron in Buenos Aires, a wine merchant in Algiers or a tyre manufacturer in Tokyo? 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-05-08T10:30:01Z When he was 10, he moved with his family to Sydenham, then a suburb south of London, and attended nearby Dulwich College before signing up for the merchant navy at 16. 11 facts about Sir Ernest Shackleton 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Over several months of intense sessions, US noise punk merchants Health recorded around six hours of new material for the score, producing a soundscape every bit as enthralling and messed up as the onscreen action. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z In this short biography, he finds room for well-designed detours into areas like the “ill-defined social position” of photographers, who “floated somewhere between artisan and technician, merchant and shopkeeper — somewhere between working class and bourgeois.” The Wild of Nadar, an Early Photographer Who Knew How to Give a Party 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z After floating ocean for three days, we were rescued by a Singaporean merchant ship headed to Taiwan. How I Escaped Vietnam 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Sutlers, merchants selling wares from makeshift tents, offered their goods not only to fellow re-enactors, but also to those of us in T-shirts and shorts. Fort Ticonderoga Re-enacts Dramatic Battles 2013-09-12T19:44:27Z Meanwhile Shopify, a platform that supports the businesses of some 1.7 million merchants, has emerged as the de facto infrastructure for social shopping — a development that the platforms have simultaneously encouraged and recognized as competition. Will TikTok Make You Buy It? 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z It is very sad how effective the "merchants of doubt" have been in spreading misinformation. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Near Strawberry Field was the Gladstone merchant's mansion, named Woolton Vale, later to become Woolton Vale Remand Home, about which John's cousin Stanley declared that "the bad boys' borstal intrigued us." The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z More than 40,000 artifacts including clothing and tapestries on display in a restored house built by a wealthy merchant in 1847 in the Plovdiv Renaissance style. My father left Bulgaria when he was 14. Nearly 7 decades later, we visit as a family. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Moses Myers was a wealthy merchant, and his was the first Jewish family to permanently settle in Norfolk. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Since opening, the designers have also started job training programs for local residents and done design work for downtown merchants. The South's Best Pies 2010-05-24T18:45:00Z Trends persist, of course, still scrutinized by mass merchants, manufacturers and many consumers, who use them as a compass, a means of navigating a sea of often-conflicting messages. In Fashion, Are Trends Passé? 2012-08-22T23:58:16Z Aside from a few chichi jewelers in Monte Carlo, successful merchants and service providers name their fees upfront. Social Q?s: Don?t Shoot the Pet Sitter - Social Q?s 2012-01-05T21:32:10Z Design houses began putting those wonderfully accessible clothes on the runway and inviting the press — and listening to the press even though fashion editors have a different agenda than merchants. Analysis | Fashion was broken even before the pandemic. A reboot could be just what it needs. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Later, when travel was forbidden, Chinese merchants developed a lively export trade to satisfy an established desire abroad. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Wealthy merchants and members of guilds and charitable organizations commissioned paintings that brought them pride while offering them a way to publicize their status. Arts: Arts Guide 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z Addressing such reservations head-on, some merchants encourage shoppers to play with the latest lengths and proportions, combining shapes and colors like so many Lego blocks. Spring Fashion: Only the Half of It: The Skirt, and Its Shape, Are in Play This Season 2012-03-21T22:05:04Z There are no documents directly from Holbein to give us a sense of what he may have thought of the schemers, tyrants, merchants and anonymous court players whom he painted. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Next up is Phuc Kien, one of five assembly halls built by Chinese merchants to plot trade deals and honor ancestors. 36 Hours in Hoi An 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Some of the locations — ahem, South Bend, ahem — may seem unlikely, but LivingSocial says it chooses its new cities based in part on feedback from local residents and merchants. In Transit: LivingSocial Offers Weekly Travel Deals 2010-12-20T15:00:43Z Even as they rode a galleon of merchant wealth, Dutch burghers worried. How the west is lost 2010-08-17T13:38:00Z As a merchant, one of your goals, he said, is to lead a customer physically to a mirror. You Are What You Wear 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Set just before Christmas in 1985, this slim novel follows a coal and timber merchant in an Irish village who confronts the grim shadow cast by the country’s Magdalene laundries. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Around them, the Uninvited’s feud escalates, building to a conflict orchestrated by a nefarious merchant ruler named Billy Kingery, who holds a vicious vendetta against the protagonist. A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In the 1600s, an Armenian merchant started poking around, looking for musk, an incredibly lucrative perfume ingredient that came from glandular secretions of Tibetan musk deer. Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Reviving an Ancient Port Two millennia ago, the monsoon winds that brought rains to Kerala also filled the sails of ships with Greeks, Arabs, Jews, Romans and merchants and mariners from across the world. Kerala: Gateway Of India 2011-07-06T22:00:00Z Like others she bought her stock locally - from Chinese merchants. Santa hats, beards and tinsel: Christmas trade on African streets 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z For decades, they helped to bulk up the rosters of large Burgundy merchants — bottles that kept shelves full and offered a weeknight drink. Perspective | Now that cheap chardonnay is everywhere, some French winemakers attempt a reinvention 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And regardless of whether they are saving Detroit, they are certainly giving a lot of love to the city as well as local and state merchants. Hotel Review: Shinola Hotel, Detroit 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z After serving as a cook in the merchant marine and receiving a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse University, he worked as an efficiency expert for the budget bureau of the state of Connecticut. Peter Falk, TV?s Detective Columbo, Has Died 2011-06-24T18:17:23Z Often, you don’t get a chance to say no, despite Visa and Mastercard rules that say consumers must be offered a choice if a merchant does currency conversion. How to Avoid Being Fleeced When Using a Credit Card Overseas 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z "I remember going to the Cheltenham races, and we were invited into a box and my father was talking to someone and he was a merchant banker," Felix says. Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z In their place are elderly, ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing black overcoats and fedoras; south and central Asians with traditional karakul hats; and gaggles of merchants shouting in languages from across the world. "Uncut Gems" celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District, a neighborhood that’s a window into the past 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z It was his first family portrait, possibly commissioned for the 20th wedding anniversary of the Haarlem cloth merchant and his wife. A Family Reunion, Centuries Later 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z We made our way down the sidewalk, cluttered with merchants hawking cellphone cases and cheap jewelry, candy and glasses, manicures and shoeshines. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z With a clarity that excuses its thematic obviousness, it explores a few overlapping visions retailed by the Walt Disney Company, that hegemonic merchant of family values and adolescent fantasies. The Best Episode of the New “Black Mirror” Is a Princess Tale Starring Miley Cyrus 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Greengrass, who also directed Matt Damon thriller The Bourne Ultimatum, also directed the 2013 film Captain Philips, starring Tom Hanks, about a merchant mariner taken hostage by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Greengrass honour at film awards 2013-11-25T17:06:56Z SAT-SUN Art vendors, merchants sidewalk sale, entertainment, beer and wine, children's activities, pet plaza; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Community Datebook calendar 2012-07-11T23:17:04Z Discuss it with friends or a wine merchant. Learn to Pair Wine With Food 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Only in the second half of the 20th century, when more grape-growers began to bottle their own wines instead of selling to large merchants, did some measure of prosperity begin to flow toward the farmers. How Income Inequality Has Erased Your Chance to Drink the Great Wines 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Maybe she had an inflated sense of entitlement simply because she was the oldest daughter of a prominent local merchant and landowner, my grandfather, Spencer Midyett. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z That book, “Life Goes On,” offered a dark picture of German political life between the wars, reflected in the troubles encountered by Max, a Jewish store owner modeled on Dr. Keilson’s father, a textile merchant. Hans Keilson, Novelist of Life in Nazi-Run Europe, Dies at 101 2011-06-02T21:23:44Z Far from shock merchants dealing in smut, what really strikes you about The Smell of Our Own is that this is music at its most affecting. My favourite album: The Smell of Our Own by Hidden Cameras 2011-08-16T10:14:43Z “It is worth it to me,” Emin Sari, a carpet merchant, said. Fighting Entropy to Salvage Istanbul's Historic Bazaar 2011-04-13T18:31:39Z Reading McPhee’s back catalog prompts uncomfortable questions, like “Why am I suddenly compelled to know more about plate tectonics or the engine rooms of the merchant marine?” In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Kerouac, I remembered, was 34 during his time on Desolation Peak and did stints in the Navy and the merchant marine. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z The museum’s wall text recalls a 1936 film, “Bullets or Ballots,” in which Humphrey Bogart begins his career as a hoodlum who forces merchants “to accept his pinball machines.” Museum Review: The Old Bing, Bing, Bing, at Full Tilt 2011-06-30T18:07:38Z But credit card companies charge merchants a fee for processing tips, so there are still businesses — most notably nail and beauty salons — that largely don’t let customers leave electronic tips. Casualties of the Cashless Society: Those Who Get Seasonal Tips 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z For those whose history classes failed them and still think Marco Polo is merely a game of swimming pool tag, the man himself was an Italian merchant who spent 24 years exploring Asia. Here’s the Teaser Trailer for Marco Polo, Netflix’s Next Original Series 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z When a textile merchant unrolls his fabrics, instead of great bolts of silk shooting across the stage, the stuff flaps around on the big stage of the Lyceum like a hankie. One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs ? review 2011-08-27T23:06:19Z But as a merchant class expanded, so did an art market, operating from workshops and public stalls in cities like Antwerp. As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Also this Saturday: a merchant open house, plus a 5:30 p.m. Vashon studio tour combines art and shopping 2011-12-01T00:36:05Z Avedon was a poor student, and joined the merchant marine in 1942 in part to avoid telling his parents that he would have to repeat senior year. Richard Avedon, a Photographer Who Wanted to Outrun the Glitz Factor 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The seed merchant is now a huge garden centre on the bypass with leisure clothing and fudge outlets but no home-grown tomatoes. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z James Tilly Matthews, a tea merchant and artist who was deemed incurably insane, sketched proposals in the 1810s for airy hospitals where the mentally ill would tend to vegetable gardens and help with chores. Chains, Whips and Misery: Studying and Preserving Old ‘Lunatic’ Asylums 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The markings were customized for businesses, like schools and inns, and for aristocrats, farmers, merchants and intellectuals. Personalized Bottles, Ceramic Royals and Chinese Artifacts 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z She grew up in a family of rich fashion merchants, but had no use for fashion herself. Exposed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Lock’s father, Stephen Vaughan, was a prosperous London merchant who served as a diplomat in Henry VIII’s court and had ties to Thomas Cromwell, the King’s chief minister. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But walk through and you will read of the lives that founded this city, merchants and seamen and soldiers. In Saint John in Canada, Exploring the Legacy of the Loyalists 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Local merchants sell cheese from nearby farms and traditional charcuterie. A Modern-Day Christmas Market, Transylvania-Style 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z The knight in shining armour had more and more to do with merchants, financiers and lawyers. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z Not long ago, a coalition of local merchants and community leaders turned to the New York City Department of Transportation, which runs a program to make traffic circles, triangles and streets into pedestrian plazas. A Prescription for Plazas and Public Spaces 2013-05-31T12:00:01Z The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Hans Castorp, scion of a Hamburg merchant family, arrives in Davos in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, who is a patient in a sanatorium. Ten of the best: Alps 2010-12-18T00:07:19Z Nuala Willis is game in the title role of the elderly duenna who aids the lovers, then gets her reward in marrying the wealthy merchant Isaac Mendosa, played by Adrian Thompson. The Duenna - review 2010-10-17T21:01:00Z Adventurer and textile merchant Pieter van den Broecke plied the West African coast in the 17th century, capturing enemy ships and encountering far-flung civilizations. Picks: art treasures, ‘Mad Men’ style, Willa Cather’s letters 2013-05-01T23:46:50Z In Roman times, Gaza was an important port on the Mediterranean, a stopover in the Middle East for merchants on the way between Asia Minor and north Africa. Beached ship restaurant fuels Gazans' longing for the sea 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Early in her solo career, Diane arranged to visit the room of a 72-year-old merchant seaman she had spotted on the street wearing a woman’s fur coat and wheeling an old baby carriage. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey, the son of a merchant banker. Jon Finch 2013-01-13T11:27:40Z Back in 2008, property owner Ron Rubin wanted to turn the block on East Cherry into a shopping district with artists and street merchants that would thrive on pedestrian and bicycle traffic. East Cherry Street: an artistic world on one city block 2011-08-09T02:49:14Z They were displayed in a basket outside our local seed merchant and nursery, in the middle of the high street. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z In the heart of the fusty St. James’ neighborhood, home to gentlemen’s clubs, tailors and cigar merchants, it featured a frontage of steel and slate slabs through which poked windows displaying his jewelry. Andrew Grima’s Work Returns to the Spotlight 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z MARLOW, England — Even though Henry Laithwaite was born into a prominent family of English wine merchants, he never imagined he would be selling English wine. Great Bubbly From England, Believe It or Not 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Nearby, metal smelters hammered weapons into shape, spice merchants prepared remedies and tradeswomen spun and dyed wool. Knight fever! Irish village transformed into medieval battlefield 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z In turn, the city’s merchants offered the dancers discounts on everything from MRIs to cookies. Joan Acocella: The Trey McIntyre Project Says Farewell 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Then walk west to the other side of Upper Town known as Gradec, once the merchant yin to Kaptol’s religious yang. 36 Hours in Zagreb, Croatia 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z How many things have to go wrong in your life for you to end up as a merchant of the thing of Tyrion’s that the slavers hope to sell? 'Game of Thrones' Invites You To Another Terrible Wedding 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z His theme this time would be the story of a fish merchant and petty criminal, Luciano, whose dream it was to successfully audition for Big Brother on television. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z Then in 1843, when he and his partner, Robert Mason, consolidated their interests into Mason and Lawrence, Lawrence was a successful textile merchant. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z SAT-SUN Medieval armored combat, archery, dancing, bards, Arts & Sciences village, merchants, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-30T20:57:04Z Although her childhood was spent in a prosperous household, her father, a hat merchant and speculator, lost all his money when she was 14. Femme Fatale, Fallen Woman, Spy: Looking for the Real Mata Hari 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z His father, a merchant marine, was an abusive alcoholic. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z As an antsy adolescent, he joined the French merchant navy and sailed as far as India. We’re Still Talking About Gauguin 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “Giving Allah’s name to people is prohibited,” a merchant says. PBS to Show ?Wham! Bam! Islam!? on ?Independent Lens? 2011-10-12T22:48:01Z General hours are: farm tables, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; crafts market, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; merchants 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pike Place Market 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z For $8 an hour, you can bike along the river and past the diverse merchants on Broad Street and its environs. 36 Hours in Chattanooga 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z While many merchants accept American cash, it’s worth repeating that Canada is, in fact, a separate country with its own currency and quirks. Six things you should know about Canada before making a trip 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “The Muslims have more access to our voting system than we do,” Rob Brooks, a 74-year-old retired merchant mariner, huffs to a fellow protester. The dark, crazy heart of Florida is on full display — again — at the election recount 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Many of the objects on display were donated by diplomats posted to Geneva, local missionaries returning from overseas tours, or local merchants and bankers with foreign offices. In Geneva, Art Thrives Where Watches Were Made 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z It was up to them to track down the merchant — for a fee, Mr. Boggs would assist — and negotiate purchase of the note. J.S.G. Boggs, Artist, Dies at 62; He Made Money. Literally. 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Among the most important collections listed in the report is that of Robert Deutsch Maceljski, a Jewish timber merchant from Zagreb who was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Croatia Takes a Step Toward Returning Art Looted During the Holocaust 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z It might depict a goddess known as Sea Foam Woman or a figurehead on a merchant’s ship. Antiques: Antiques Dealers on TV (Casting Calls Posted) 2011-03-24T21:17:07Z Before the early years of this century, ordering wine from out-of-state merchants was a minor part of the business, and drew little attention. The Supreme Court May Change the Way You Buy Wine 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z A case in point: "Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day," which addresses "the misanthropic misbegotten merchants of gloom." Review: Billy Bragg blends themes big and small 2013-03-18T17:25:09Z Ask your merchant for similar bottles, and by all means consult past Thanksgiving columns for additional specific ideas. And Now the Easy Part: Selecting Thanksgiving Wines 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Pierce found in Paul Child a complex man, a one-time merchant marine, who had a black belt in judo, played the violin and had a fear of heights. David Hyde Pierce shines behind the chef star in ‘Julia’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Of course, this is no excuse — but it may explain why Booking.com couldn’t get the merchant’s attention. Our consumer advocate goes to bat against Booking.com over an unreturned deposit | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z If you didn’t ask to pay in dollars but are nonetheless charged in dollars, tell the merchant to reissue your bill in euros. Tips on Traveling in Europe This Summer 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z She was a Sassoon, a member of an enormous merchant family from Baghdad known as the Rothschilds of the East. Vagabond Lives: Happier Memories From Kathryn Harrison’s Childhood 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Still, the lack of supplies is no joke for merchants and consumers alike. Argentina: What the tampon rumpus says about the troubled country 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The town's monks, Xuanzang noted, shrewdly charged visitors to see their relics, and their monasteries functioned as dormitories, bazaars and banks for merchants. The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z Labels rarely disclose their presence, so check with your merchant or a winery website. Unlocking the Secrets of Your Pantry 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z In it, Sandler stars as Howard Ratner, a gemstone merchant and compulsive gambler whose wide web of debts, betrayals and schemes render his life a mad scramble. Adam Sandler on plunging into the Safdies’ ‘Uncut Gems’ 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z There are merchants and mothers; novelists and navy men; one of Byron's bankers and a favoured pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft. Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP 2013-05-18T11:39:00Z Many of the wooden merchant houses and ornate temples and assembly halls — a fusion of styles from China, Europe and Japan — date back to Hoi An’s prime in the 1700s. 36 Hours in Hoi An 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Malbone was a descendant of Rhode Island merchants who sold mahogany and slaves, but by the early 1800s his branch of the family had run out of money and moved to Connecticut. Letters From a Secret Courtship in 19th-Century Brooklyn Evoke a Jane Austen Plot 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Chareau was born in Bordeaux, where his father was a wine merchant, and his mother was descended from Sephardic Jews. The Virtual Splendor of Paris’s Glass House 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z There are teeming towns filled with merchants, beggars, guards, thieves, craftsmen and kings. Video Game Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Video Game - Review 2011-11-25T19:09:01Z “The IT department left. The head of catering left. The merchants left. Our corporate chef left. We had a bunch of consultants helping us, but we haven’t been using them because they didn’t get paid.” Inside the downfall of Dean & DeLuca, a once dazzling luxury food store dims its lights 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z As we glided upriver, we were greeted with the sights and sounds of fishermen throwing hand nets and merchants plying the swirling, silt-laden waters in all forms of primitive crafts. Where to find the unspoiled splendors of Southeast Asia 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In the early years of the 13th century, Francis of Assisi, the son of a wealthy merchant, renounced his significant inherited wealth and devoted himself to God. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z He begged and borrowed from his social network, which included Revolutionary War heroes and merchant elite, to fund his ice enterprise. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z These were built on existing systems, particularly the hawala networks of informal money transfer used by merchants across the developing world. Making profits out of hope 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Bean enlivened such TV game shows as “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z From traders in cotton and coffee — and railroads and tobacco — they become “merchants of money.” Review: A Magnificent Road to Ruin in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Halsey’s colorful paintings on wooden boxes refer to how big box retailers displace local merchants, Sargent added, the way gentrification “often removes a community’s contributions.” ackNew Gagosian Director Spotlights Black Artists Involved in Social Change 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Cellars were not equipped for visits and, she said, merchants in Bordeaux were concerned that visitors would buy wine directly from the producers rather than through their networks. A Museum Bridges the Divide Between Two Bordeaux 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z His suspicions had been proved right when Quinn had been moved sideways again and Giles had underlined his corruption by taking a job in a merchant bank. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z In the ’80s, when the city sent a survey to Front’s merchants and residents about renaming it after Martin Luther King Jr., more than 200 respondents vetoed the idea and only nine endorsed it. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z In five months, filming in Budapest, she had to see Aliena through 20 years from "princess to peasant to wool merchant to love interest to wife and mother". Hayley Atwell 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z I found that the mechanisms of a pre-modern economy are precisely the devices that allow diamond merchants to thrive in the 21st century. "Uncut Gems" celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District, a neighborhood that’s a window into the past 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Warburg & Co., the platform for his career as a merchant banker. 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z They include a young skateboarder, Jared; some sidewalk merchants; and a neighborhood resident named Stanley, who sits under a poster with the words “Stop Police Terror.” What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In fact, it seems to me that she thinks like an old-fashioned merchant. On the Runway Blog: Going Their Own Ways 2012-08-24T21:26:05Z By the time of the Great Fire, London was an international city; it was also a gathering place for English merchants. Exhibition Review: Folger Library Traces London’s Rise 2012-06-28T22:04:46Z Back and forth from Libya to the south, to Sicily and Rome to the east, sail-driven merchant vessels carried olive oil, cheeses, charcuterie and wine often stored in massive terra-cotta amphoras. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But he and his fellow merchants financed the armies that fought off the threat to their business. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He was a shipping merchant with an incredible story. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: America’s First Black Millionaires 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Instead of Chaucer’s knight, merchant and monk, Smith has characters you might see walking down Kilburn High Road, including a Nigerian pastor and a Polish bailiff. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z On the bustling streets around Mr. Haydargil’s shop, merchants selling nuts or baklava or both seem to occupy every other shop. Frugal Traveler: Into Pistachio Country, in Southeastern Turkey 2011-07-12T19:47:32Z Our first stop, a seven-minute stroll away: a late lunch among the “downtown” hub of merchants. For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z From Wednesday to next Friday, Sotheby’s and Christie’s will offer Chinese harbor and ship panoramas as well as portraits of merchants and trade officials, with estimates from $3,000 to $40,000 each. Mortality Lives Again as Funeral and Cemetery Items Pique Interest 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “Under the merchant model, we facilitate the booking of hotel rooms, airline seats, car rentals and destination services from our travel suppliers and we are the merchant of record for such bookings,” the report says. Allegation in Hunters’ indictment raises issue of how Expedia charges appear on bank statements 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z In the 1770s he traveled around Italy, painting Hapsburgs, and he spent the 1780s in India, earning huge profits from portraits of soldiers and merchants. Antiques: Johan Zoffany, Portraitist; Diaries of M. Louise Baker 2011-10-20T20:53:53Z “The real reason why you have to pay upfront is because merchants can’t trust consumers not to run away with the product. In today’s world, we can solve this problem with technology.” Try, Then Buy? Amazon’s Move Is Part of a Shopping Trend 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z But it was the merchants of Venice who fully worked it out, including the seemingly trivial, yet crucial, innovation of recording debits and credits in two separate columns. ‘Double Entry’: crediting the Venetians for creating modern accounting 2012-12-07T00:24:51Z In the crowded lanes of the bazaar, merchants did not seem put off by the prospect of paying an estimated average of $30,000 to save the market. Fighting Entropy to Salvage Istanbul's Historic Bazaar 2011-04-13T18:31:39Z He and friends later bought a merchant bank, Leopold Joseph & Company, which developed a lucrative business in corporate finance and investment advice for the rich. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein, Rolling Stones Money Manager, Dies at 80 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Such classical retrospection wholly pervades the Renaissance zeitgeist: If you wish to praise a merchant adventurer, notes Bate, you liken him to Jason, leader of the Argonauts. Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z It is largely due to the generosity of her husband François, a coal merchant, that the museum boasts such a fine collection of impressionist works. France's Rouen revisits its impressionist past 2010-07-20T13:00:00Z French police spoiled a sophisticated wine theft operation that cost restaurateurs and merchants millions of dollars. French police recover $6 million in stolen wine from alleged gang-run operation: report 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Nearby there’s a fishmonger, four butchers, four bakeries, a specialty food shop and a cheese merchant. In Paris Bakeries, Liberté From Gluten 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The history of the Philipse family, merchants who had dealings with pirates, is the inspiration for this annual festival of music, activities and food running from Thursday through July 7. Spare Times for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T22:14:14Z The idea of public working spaces fell out of favor for centuries — most merchants conducted business at home, often above their shops. We hate the office. We love the office. Do we want to go back? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The captain of Washington’s security detail bought as much Madeira as he could from merchants and collectors in the region on Washington’s behalf, usually in lots of 11 dozen bottles. A toast to the Founding Fathers should include their favorite drink 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z One-third of the white population were middle class, landed Yeoman, our merchants, people with economic ties to slavery. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In Roman times, Gaza was an important port on the Mediterranean, a stopover in the Middle East for merchants on the way between Asia Minor and north Africa. Beached ship restaurant fuels Gazans' longing for the sea 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In a corridor, a framed copy of another club founder’s speech describes artworks there as “reminders of that glorious period when our merchants and ships opened the markets of the world.” India House Artwork Inspires a New Book 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z That philosophy recalls an era when merchants knew clients by name and a sale took place only at the end of a season. How this independent boutique thrives in an era of fast fashion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z I trained for six months and joined SS Rio Azul, a cargo steamer, as a deck boy in the merchant navy. Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z They lead through a gallery of paintings to the portrait of Mona Lisa, the wife of an Italian silk merchant. Meeting the ‘Mona Lisa’ for an Intimate (Virtual) Rendezvous 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z This show’s title, “Pronk,” comes from the word “pronkstilleven,” for a type of large, ornate still life in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painting that was commissioned by merchants to showcase their luxury goods. Museum & Gallery Listings for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I think of artists often as merchants of empathy. "Blindspotting" is a "truly American story" about living in a country addicted to imprisoning people 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z A jewelry merchant, Koedijck did not enjoy much success as a painter in his homeland. Art Review: Dutch Masterpieces, Assembled by Art Lovers 2011-04-22T11:00:04Z Meanwhile, those Taobao villages also contain some embittered merchants who hate the e-commerce platform, because it allows buyers to demand refunds long after they’ve received their goods. The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist’s scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith’s calipers. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z The town's merchants welcome the newcomers with organic brownies and two-for-one lattes, and each new morning the security guards continue to beam at us: "Free bag check with every festival pass!" My love affair with the American bluegrass festival 2013-07-17T12:00:03Z Throughout his book, Mr. Wu explores “the fundamental, continual dilemma for the attention merchant — just how far will he go to get his harvest?” Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Ruth Gordon played the title role, and Mr. Morse and Arthur Hill played clerks in the merchant’s shop. Robert Morse, Impish Tony-Winning Comedy Star, Is Dead at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In confining them, they were doing what they also did to non-native merchants including Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Persians and, ironically, Germans. Hidden secrets 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In speaking to merchants or sommeliers, you are better off staying general. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Already confirmed for the opening date of what's set to be a fortnightly residency are Horne's regular collaborators Watson and Key, plus a set from irrepressible pun merchant Tim Vine. This week's new comedy 2011-01-29T00:06:31Z These days merchants, and designers, acknowledge the trend as a cultural bellwether, as was perhaps inevitable. Add Festival Season to the Fashion Calendar 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The craze gradually spread to interiors and textiles, from the tiled walls of merchant houses to gilded chinoiserie pavilions specially built to display princely collections of the precious porcelain. | Delft Touch 2013-05-07T22:45:47Z The exhibition draws from the jewel box of the daughter of an American diamond merchant who lives by the edict to “always put on more jewelry, and mix fine with costume.” Scouting Report: Sales and Openings for the Week of June 27 2013-06-26T22:06:41Z Visa said that it requires banks or merchants that do currency conversions to offer customers “an educated choice.” How to Avoid Being Fleeced When Using a Credit Card Overseas 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Monks and Brahman holy men, hungry for new converts and turf, headed south and east from the subcontinent on merchant ships carrying religious objects with them. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z Situated inside a gorgeously restored 18th-century merchant home, the House of Spices restaurant serves Indian Ocean fare with an Italian accent. 36 Hours in Zanzibar, Tanzania 2014-05-01T19:34:05Z He pronounces “spirits” — as in “spirits merchant,” his fancy name for his profession — as “spurts.” In Canada, an Artwork With Its Own Barkeeps 2010-02-22T05:41:00Z Even as retailers try to recover, low inventory from merchants and the inability to try on in-person remains challenging. Feeling Crafty? Make Your Own Wedding Day Look. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The best advice: When in doubt, ask your wine merchant, whose job it is to direct you to the best bottle for any occasion. How to Read a Wine Label, in 12 Easy Lessons 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The stereo, incidentally, was blasting bouncy pop; what misbegotten market research leads merchants to think this makes people want to whip out their wallets? | Aritzia: Aritzia, Canadian Store, Comes to SoHo 2011-09-27T22:20:09Z It re-emphasizes the buffalo as another plundered resource that nourished Native people but held monetary value to white hunters and merchants selling their hides and heads to people in East Coast cities. With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z It turns out to be only the latest of Hero’s transformations: She was born to a rich, pedigreed family, descended from Spanish colonial officials and Chinese merchants and chummy with President Ferdinand Marcos. A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z For merchants, who depend on the holiday season for a huge portion of annual sales, it's a crucial last-minute effort. Stores entice shoppers with longer hours, lower prices 2011-12-23T12:51:00Z A century ago, this was the Fifth Avenue of Bangkok, lined with the palatial mansions of Thai sea merchants. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, its very brittleness is what relegates it to the great houses and the most successful merchants. All the Hidden Clues in Samwell Tarly's Citadel Scenes on Game of Thrones 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z “If you pay a merchant in dollars, they are marking up their own rate,” Mr. Rowan said. How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z She was adopted at age 8 by a Florentine leather merchant, who provided a dowry when she married in 1470. This 15th-century orphanage in Florence is now a kid-friendly museum 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z If tax revenues decline, however, free parking probably harms merchants.” Down with free parking! 2013-06-09T17:00:00Z Now comes the complex story of Shchukin as an alternately fearless and anxious collector; a successful textile merchant; and a doting husband and father. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They are the work of Michel van Overbeek, possibly a Dutch merchant who drew as he traveled, given the geographical range of his subjects and the apparent lack of paintings by him. 2010-01-29T06:18:00Z Today, Priestland says, the merchant caste rules alone in the west. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z He recalled sadly how his own grandfather, an opium-smoking northern Chinese merchant who founded the village's first copper mine, eventually sold it to a British trader to finance his habit. Short story: England and My Clan by Yan Lianke 2010-03-22T12:02:00Z If a traveler could show proof that they tried but failed to fix the problem, a dedicated resolution team would contact the merchant and request a response. Travelers are turning to credit-card disputes when other routes to a refund have failed 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The merchant thought Richard was mad; but Richard said, “No, master! As I live, the Saracen lady is going up and down the city, calling ‘Gilbert! Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Based on a chapter in Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” this squally scary movie is set on a London-bound merchant ship doomed to a bloody routine. ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Blood on the Water 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Many of the neighborhood’s merchants and residents are recipients of her work: sculptural simulations of rocks and boulders that adorn rooftops, balconies and shop windows. Inside Art: At Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze’s ‘Triple Point’ 2013-05-30T19:51:10Z Saturday, art show, merchants' sidewalk sale Saturday, Magnolia Playfield, West Smith Street and 32nd Avenue West, and Magnolia Village; kids' parade, 10:30 a.m., main parade, 11 a.m. Community Corner: Lake City Pioneer Days, Umoja Fest 2012-08-03T19:47:07Z Foreign adventures and the colonial wealth they brought with them enriched a merchant class eager to display its might with opulent new homes outside the city’s inner core. Diving Into the History of Amsterdam's Canals 2010-06-20T10:00:00Z “This refers to the fact that the sale appears valid at first, but then the merchant is hit by a dispute much later.” Travelers are turning to credit-card disputes when other routes to a refund have failed 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It was a neighborhood of empty lots, but the streets were crowded with people — shoppers, merchants, children, the elderly. D.C.’s Chinatown has only 300 Chinese Americans left — and fighting to stay 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z My father is a merchant mariner, and when my sister and I were small we would record messages to him on cassette tapes. Poet creates 'buzz' around work by reading over phone to potential buyers 2011-07-05T13:47:23Z Or take a group of Russian merchants — the ones that gave Maddox a building loan — portrayed here as operatic “barrel-bellied, bearded boyars.” Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z He was born in New York, the son of a merchant from Bogotá in Colombia and his American wife. Al Williamson obituary 2010-07-14T17:21:00Z A cellphone tower underscored this as a place of important commerce, as did a store in which a Chinese merchant sold unlocked BlackBerrys and bottles of Borgoe 82 rum. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z The collection is available online at thehighline.org and at the merchant cart on the High Line between 15th and 16th Streets. Shopping News for Sept. 13 - Scouting Report 2012-09-12T21:43:07Z Faiveley is best known as a négociant, a merchant that buys grapes, makes the wine and sells it under its label. The Value of Burgundy, Regardless of the Price 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “We’ve said no to all the big supermarkets. We want in France to sell the wine through small-scale wine merchants and grocers,” he said. Sacre bleu! Blue wine makes a splash in southern France 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z A German sailor on a merchant ship captured in the 18th century copied out a poem for his daughter’s baptism. Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z My son, a previous merchant banker, is very interested. Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z In a 1656 picture of the centre of Amsterdam, Ottoman merchants are shown negotiating a deal just round the corner from where the picture itself now hangs. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z “This town is not owned by crooked politicians, sleazy developers or Cabo silver merchants,” he told the crowd. Is This Giant Baja Resort Sustainable? Depends Who You Ask. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Bergstein, a resident of Hidden Hills, California, who at the time of his arrest in 2016 was the chief executive of merchant banking firm Cyrano Group Inc, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 8. Film producer convicted in U.S. of investment fraud 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The Great Room, which links the three adjoining merchant houses and where meals are served, is dramatic and features black walls offset with Marcel Wanders lighting. Dutch Treat: Amsterdam's Canal House hotel 2011-08-11T13:55:00Z The amendment, which deals with interchange fees charged to merchants each time a customer swipes a debit card, sets new limits on those transaction fees. In Transit: Fewer Rewards for Debit Card Holders 2011-06-17T18:28:32Z The narrator is the well-known American magician Ricky Jay, a key figure in David Mamet's movies about conmen and heist merchants. The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z It was in the possession of the Reverend James Inman when the merchant ship on which he was sailing encountered a French naval squadron off the Malaysian coast in February 1804. Rare Chinese early music book found 2014-03-04T15:05:56Z These are available online and from a couple dozen merchants, mostly in New York City. Is this Tunisian chile paste the new sriracha? Not yet, but it sure should be. 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z But visitors and merchants alike must remove all their gear after dinner and leave the island for the night, though sleeping on boats offshore is allowed. You’re Going to Need a Smaller Boat: Island Hopping in the Grenadines 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Both have become boom towns, with a steady stream of merchants and consumers, Haitians and Dominicans flowing back and forth on the bridge over the Massacre River. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Bergstein, a resident of Hidden Hills, California, who at the time of his arrest in 2016 was the chief executive of merchant banking firm Cyrano Group Inc, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 8. Film producer convicted in U.S. of investment fraud 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The tennis player walks by the cemetery where the Jewish merchant is buried. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z This is another reason to strike up a friendship with a local wine merchant. Is the alcohol level of wines going up? 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z America was a nation of farmers, artisans, merchants and the enslaved; it still was when he died in 1862. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Oh yeah but I was a great soul merchant, a James Brown merchant. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z Each pilgrim of "The Canterbury Tales" represents a different class or social position — the knight, the priest, the merchant, and so on. Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z One that would buy a Captain on a merchant ship enough time to identify a marauding U-boat and sink it before it sunk him. Dazzle Ships and the art of confusion 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And we can compare the tiny portraits of ordinary citizens he scratched into metal plates with the full-scale oil paintings of Amsterdam’s merchants and burghers from which he earned his living. Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago. Why He Matters Today. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z It was here, he explained, that Jewish merchants would sell their wares on market days. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Eighteen hundred years ago, it was no less lively, although the music that filled the air then was the singsong of merchants and customers haggling. The Legend and Lore of Notre-Dame de Reims 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z This is one of many theories surrounding the identity of the "Mona Lisa," ranging from a self-portrait to a Florentine merchant's wife. Male model behind the Mona Lisa, expert claims 2011-02-02T13:46:16Z This should serve to remind us that the United States has become the world’s foremost merchant of death, selling far more weapons globally than any other country. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Wood, grains and genever — a traditional Dutch spirit flavored with juniper — were among the goods local merchants shipped out to the rest of the world. In the Netherlands, a foray into cocktail history 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Bean enlivened such TV game shows as To Tell the Truth and played a crotchety merchant on Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. Veteran actor Orson Bean hit and killed by car in Los Angeles 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z But area merchants now worry that, as it caters more and more to high net worth individuals, it is losing its chronicled charm. The New New Bond Street 2013-09-13T22:24:12Z For commerce to work smoothly, merchants and customers need to trust each other. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z The gray shirt features the word Bristol above an empty plinth like the one on which the statue of 17th-century slave merchant Edward Colston long stood. Banksy creates T-shirt to help statue-toppling defendants 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z The merchant was an older man, instantly wary when he saw me push open the door. Postcard From My Past: Crossing Into Syria 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z From the opening shots of an axe-wielding Reed, all heavy-lidded menace, this has some claim to being Winner's finest film, and a rebuke to all those who dismissed him as a cheap-shot exploitation merchant. Michael Winner in clips 2013-01-21T16:59:15Z The stores were named for the families that ran them, merchants integral to their cities. Inside the Nordstrom Dynasty 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Tell the merchant your budget and parameters, say, half white, half red, with two sparkling wines, or a few rosés. A Starter Kit for Aspiring Wine Lovers 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Weak eyes kept him out of the military, but he memorized an eye chart to get into the merchant marine during World War II. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z The Temple of Hercules Victor, above, is situated in the Forum Boarium, which was a bustling commercial center in ancient times, when many Roman merchants were fervent Hercules worshipers.Credit... Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The court paper, filed in connection with Mr. Stettiner’s 1946 claim to regain the painting, describes it as a Modigliani self-portrait, not an image of a chocolate merchant. Owner of a Modigliani Portrait Is Adamant the Work Isn’t Nazi Loot 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Glass was living with a squeegee merchant called Rosa who had a house in downtown Toronto and split the rent between 20 people at $100 a month. Crystal Castles sparkle with or without The Brain 2010-05-21T23:09:00Z They were followed by groups of Jewish and Russian wine merchants who were subsequently supplanted by Communist-era state cooperatives, which were ultimately replaced by the international collectives that control much of the production today. Tokaj, Hungary, a Little-Known Wine Trail 2010-07-24T04:45:00Z The opera imagines a back story for the short-lived third wife of Czar Ivan the Terrible: Marfa, the daughter of a Novgorod merchant. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z But when Suri picks up a ball of golden twine dropped by a mysterious boy whose packages she helped carry away from the merchant camp, she becomes the quarry of a family of caitsiths. Beauty and the Beasts 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z For a fleeting moment, it felt as if I’d been transported back centuries, to a time when Dubrovnik was a powerful center of merchant shipping in the Mediterranean. The fantasy world of real-life Dubrovnik, Croatia Almost inevitably, these merchants run afoul of our core sense of privacy. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Another gallery demonstrated the interest that upper-class Europeans developed in the “exotic” cultures they were increasingly hearing about from merchants and explorers. In Mexico, a dazzling museum dives headlong into the Baroque period 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The book describes a range of items, from teacups to columns, that foreign diplomats, merchants, soldiers, archaeologists and explorers funneled to private collections and museums. A Love for Vintage Dolls That Never Grows Old 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “I was taught by my father — there was no better merchant on the planet,” Gene said when we met over a drink at the Four Seasons. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z It was among the most diverse cities in 17th-century Europe, described as a tablero de ajedrez: a “chessboard” on which white and Black residents crisscrossed with an international cast of merchants, sailors and servants. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It's amazing to think of him composing music as lovely as this on a ropey merchant vessel in the middle of the Atlantic. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z Small design houses often feel buffeted by large merchants who have the clout to negotiate asymmetrical contracts. Fashion will survive. But many of the designers at the heart of the industry might not. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z When news of the ice in Calcutta circulated, British merchants in Bombay, modern-day Mumbai, excitedly raised money to build an ice house in the city's docks. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Several years ago the designers did a spring collection of about 65 pieces for Target, and recently they agreed to let the merchant reissue some of those looks for its Go anniversary promotion. On the Runway: Proenza Schouler Doesn't Care for Target's Messenger 2011-03-25T16:19:14Z But by the late middle ages, the merchants were fighting back. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z Similar sentiments are being echoed this year by a cohort of merchants, trend seers and designers exhorting their customers to shrug off their woolly layers for a string of buoyant mood lifters. Spring Fashion, Hand Yourself Bouquets 2014-04-16T21:59:50Z Soon he was auditioning for the director Tyrone Guthrie and given his first Broadway role, in “The Matchmaker,” Thornton Wilder’s comedy about a widowed merchant’s search for a new wife. Robert Morse, Impish Tony-Winning Comedy Star, Is Dead at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He joined the merchant navy after leaving college, arriving in London in time to celebrate his 21st birthday. Jeremy Ramsden obituary 2013-02-19T11:55:12Z Italian merchants in the middle ages began by importing silk goods from Islamic countries to sell on to the barons and burghers of northern Europe. Bridging the gap: the east-west divide in art 2011-04-05T16:30:31Z People were generally supportive, whether it was merchants expecting a boost in business or residents caught up in the buzz. Chelsea warning: NY town abuzz pre-Clinton wedding 2010-07-28T18:39:00Z Most nights, the Old City's stone alleyways are dimly lit, peopled mainly by small numbers of tourists, Palestinian merchants and children, and ultra-Orthodox Jews headed to or from religious studies or prayers. For a week, Jerusalem's Old City lightens up 2011-06-16T15:18:17Z Her father’s family included prosperous lumber merchants and food manufacturers. Mary Griggs Burke, Collector of Japanese Art, Dies at 96 2012-12-18T07:57:17Z In 1939, Mr. Abrahams found a job as a stoker on a merchant ship and spent nearly two years at sea before settling in England. Peter Abrahams, whose novels detailed South Africa’s racial injustice, dies at 97 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z In 1976, he was one of nine judges in the famous blind tasting in Paris organized by Steven Spurrier, a young British expatriate wine merchant, that pitted Californian wines against their French counterparts. International Designation Is Sweet Victory for Burgundy 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z It was written soon after the death of Bellow's own father, Abe, a failed bootlegger turned coal merchant, who beat his children and derided Saul's literary aspirations. Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir by Greg Bellow – review 2013-05-25T11:01:01Z The book, which describes the Hungarian king’s library, was sold by a merchant to the city of Torun in the mid 16th century and it has remained there ever since. Poland’s plan to gift Orban precious document draws scorn 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z He documented the effects of British and European culture on Americans, the role of pamphlets in revolutionary thinking and the rise of merchant and planter classes. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z This amazing woman was stabbed to death in the lobby of a South Kensington hotel by a merchant seaman she'd had an affair with and then rejected. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z It was not, and in 1958, the Crown was smuggled into Jerusalem by a cheese merchant who was one of the few Syrian Jews to receive official permission to emigrate to Israel. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Now he could take on the unlikely guise of the second mate aboard my novel’s merchant ship. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z A Somali man was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison for the pirate attack on the Maersk Alabama merchant ship. Greengrass film to open NY festival 2013-07-30T09:11:03Z Nobody knows the wares better than the merchants who buy them. Everyday Wines: The Most Important Bottles You Will Drink 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z According to Sonny, trustworthiness and courtesy are the most important qualities of a good merchant — even more essential than singing. At the Folklife Festival, arabbers peddle fruit with a musical flourish In that case, the online travel agency is the merchant of record. Allegation in Hunters’ indictment raises issue of how Expedia charges appear on bank statements 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Forward-thinking merchants, too, are championing their versatility, anointing this once-humble wardrobe understudy as the unlikely diva of the spring and summer season. It?s a Turban, It?s a Dress (It?s a Scarf) 2011-05-25T21:01:02Z The child of a wealthy Italian merchant, he had a 12th-century playboy youth, went to war and spent a year in captivity. ‘God’s Fool’ Review: A Singing, Beat Poet Saint 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Secret Service agents made it clear to local merchants that anyone using the bills as currency would face prosecution, and the grand experiment ended. J.S.G. Boggs, Artist, Dies at 62; He Made Money. Literally. 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The merchants are arguing over whose tea is best. After the Fire, a Chinatown Museum Sifts Through What Survived 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Arab influence is also felt in Palermo’s street markets, where merchants retain the tradition of singing their sales pitches. Sicilian surprises in Palermo 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He was born in 1909 in São Paulo into a cosmopolitan family; his merchant father was a German-Jewish immigrant, his upper-class mother a Brazilian Roman Catholic. Revisiting the Constructed Edens of Roberto Burle Marx 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z FRI Sample wine at 14 local merchants, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z For those who do not want to absorb the details, aid is easy to come by, namely from good merchants and sommeliers, even wine critics. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z But she is not averse to efforts by Bronx artists and merchants to spruce up the area. The Rebranding of the Bronx 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The title character is unhappily married to Tichon, a well-off merchant who shows little interest. Review: A searing ‘Katya Kabanova’ on the Seattle Opera stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z This style is the standard product at some of the city’s best-known jerk merchants. To Find New York’s Best Jerk, Follow the Smoke 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Her mother’s father was a captain in a Coast Guard, on the cutter called The Badger, and before him was a tribe of New Englander merchants and farmers stretching back a couple centuries. In my genes: Adventures in DNA testing 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Around the same time, the East India Company, never known for its altruism, sent tea thieves to China posing as hapless merchants. Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z These are the months when the merchants of sparkling wine earn their keep. Sparkling Wines, Even if 2020 Hasn’t Earned Them 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “Everyone is here — the well-to-do farmers, laborers, merchants, westerners, kids, politicians, immigrants, veterans, women, and African Americans. They are elated, dejected, confounded, argumentative, jovial, and intensely serious.” The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “But I would need to find a merchant.” What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z After fleeing from the Goths, Avars and Huns in the fifth and sixth centuries, Venetian merchants built a maritime empire on the city’s 117 islets and ruled the Adriatic for half a millennium. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “Our first step was to advise customers to attempt a resolution with the merchant,” he says. Travelers are turning to credit-card disputes when other routes to a refund have failed 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I think he meant he was against the "high status" comedian: the patter merchant who points out the foibles of everyone else from some Olympian height. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z Sarah Tam, the chief merchant officer at Rent the Runway, remembers the animal-print trend percolating in December 2017 and going into “full force” by February. The Leopard-Print Midi Skirt Is the Summer Trend That Won’t Die 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The look of the city has changed dramatically as national retailers have replaced independent merchants. 5,000 NYC pay phones will take you back to 1993 2013-04-07T22:16:05Z And a new wave of Aleppan restaurants is laying claim to rooftops and courtyards across town, while merchants’ houses from the Ottoman era are being converted into trendy boutique hotels. 2010-01-23T05:06:00Z A 17th-century merchant’s house is a stone’s throw from a present-day knickknack shop. Medieval meets modern in charming Kilkenny, Ireland 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “That’s where I first tasted the Bordeaux first growths, Château Musar, Quilceda Creek cabernet or Chinese chardonnay. And the merchants always told the back story, the history. And Bordeaux has a lot of history.” What did the founding fathers drink? And other pressing wine questions. 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z You see this in the first scenes, as Harry interrogates the dwarf Griphook and the wand merchant Ollivander, momentarily his prisoners. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z These merchants amassed great wealth and invested in schools and hospitals but also exploited common laborers. 'Mumbai Fables': Gyan Prakash's fact-packed, rewarding history of the city 2010-12-22T22:06:04Z The Victorians began to enjoy the idea of themselves as latter-day Venetians, independent merchants at the centre of a great trading empire. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z If an ATM or merchant device looks wonky, do not use it. Avoid ATMs on weekends, choose your gas pump wisely and other tips to keep your finances safe when traveling 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He left school at 15 to work as a merchant seaman, the first in a decades’-long series of blue-collar jobs. Brian Jacques, Writer of Redwall Series, Dies at 71 2011-02-09T05:31:46Z For the first time, the Nazis had knowingly destroyed an American merchant ship. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Outside, a swarm of merchants grabbed at my arms and legs, pleading with me to buy carpets, Nefertiti busts, King Tut tchotchkes of every conceivable variety. How I found the perfect koshary — an Egyptian delicacy — in Cairo 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Tall merchant houses alternated with blinkered pieces of modernism. How Alasdair Gray Reimagined Glasgow 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Beacon holders can then use the funds to purchase goods from participating local merchants. The panhandler’s lament: In an increasingly cashless world, fewer have a dime to spare 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Among the hundreds of graves are those of Scottish writer Tobias Smollett, Irish aristocrat Margaret King – taught by Wollstonecraft and friend to her daughter, Mary Shelley – and the English merchant Robert Bateman. Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP 2013-05-18T11:39:00Z After all, Essie is one of what she calls the town’s “death merchants.” Books of The Times: The Obituary Writer Has the Upper Hand 2011-04-13T22:35:36Z A reward of 100,000 marks was offered, and later, a newspaper reported that two men, “the merchant Rost, and the locksmith Schumann,” confessed to the theft. A Portrait of Rembrandt Goes on Show. But Did He Paint It? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The bride's father works in New York and Tel Aviv as a managing director of Israel Venture Partners, a venture capital and merchant banking firm. Danielle Marshak, Evan Feinberg 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z In both instances the latter merchant is bringing the fight to their larger competitor. Underdogs Amazon, Target take aim at iTunes, Walmart 2010-12-13T06:46:00Z Local merchants have been asked to sign confidentiality agreements that seem more effective in imposing secrecy than top-secret labels on some war documents. Wedding bells awaken sleepy New York town 2010-07-30T02:51:00Z He also shipped out to Hawaii and Rio de Janeiro as a merchant seaman. Art Linkletter, TV Host, Dies at 97 2010-05-26T21:10:00Z The area flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when local merchants established a trading and financial network that covered the whole of China. Next Time You're in ... Anhui 2011-05-26T15:50:00Z During a village raid, Akuny is orphaned and taken in by her father’s friend Yaseen, a merchant, whose promise to care for her charts a path for both of their lives for years to come. 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z I sent my kids off on their own to wander the market and watched as a dozen merchants trailed them, their bounty held out, their lilted “I’ll give you a nice price” echoing. Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z After serving as a cook in the merchant marine and receiving a master's degree in public administration from Syracuse University, Falk worked as an efficiency expert for the budget bureau of the state of Connecticut. Peter Falk, TV's rumpled Columbo, has died 2011-06-25T11:45:14Z While Victorian pomposity merchants were selling oily encumbrances by the cartload, Vincent van Gogh worked unknown, and unsold. Richard Hamilton's farewell, Frieze and Cotman paints France – the week in art 2012-10-05T13:37:48Z Arriving in its main town and port of Emborio, you immediately notice the many 19th-century mansions that bear testament to the island’s history as a thriving fishing and merchant capital. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Medieval wool merchants built stately manor houses and remarkable, timeless churches that have been lovingly preserved. 36 Hours in the Cotswolds 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z British wine merchants traditionally aged ports in casks for years before bottling and selling them, but few if any are doing that today. The vintage stuff is glorious — and pricey. But there are other ways to enjoy port. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He dropped out of school at 16, spent two years in the merchant marine, then joined the Air Force and was sent to Bolling Air Force Base in Washington. Jimmy Dean, Folksy Singer and Businesman, Dies at 81 2010-06-15T03:42:00Z I especially enjoyed an animated presentation of how wine merchants through the ages challenged themselves over millenniums to transport wine overseas to customers who craved it. A Museum Bridges the Divide Between Two Bordeaux 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Not content with getting the merchant off the hook through legal sophistry, she further twists the knife to strip Shylock of his property, citizenship and even his religious identity. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The first of these is the merchant caste, or in modern parlance, the capitalists, promoting the values of business competition and the market. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z By the early 19th century, American merchants, artists and writers began to move away from the historic saint in favor of fantastical tales. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z And so each grizzled marshal, strong-headed woman, snake oil merchant and crazy old man just plunges the player more deeply into the action. Red Dead Redemption 2010-05-17T17:05:00Z Not by the poor, but by a large and diverse crowd of merchants. The real-life power of Rembrandt 2011-08-16T15:40:03Z On her historic home’s past: “It was built in 1839 by a middle-class merchant next to a warehouse near the waterfront in New York,” she said. Design Wisdom from Oscar Winner Julianne Moore 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Perhaps his desire for attention was shaped by his absent merchant seaman father’s lack of interest in him. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Armed with new wealth and technology, the Dutch merchants established their self-determined government to ensure that banking and investing, supported by the rule of law, would flourish, free of foreign tariffs. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Brooding and intransigent, “Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas” undertakes a brave and foolhardy act, not unlike the prideful horse merchant of the title. Mads Mikkelsen Stars in ‘Age of Uprising’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z An extravaganza of tropical fruits and vegetables that brings Bidayuh, Malay and Chinese farmers and merchants to town from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and 5 a.m. to 1 or 2 p.m. on Sunday. In Borneo, City Pleasures and Jungle Adventure 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z In 1949, the Lighthouse drew a rough crowd of longshoremen and merchant seamen. Howard Rumsey, bass player who built a center of West Coast jazz, dies at 97 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z He added: “ ‘Who is the merchant and who is the Jew?’ Arts, Briefly: Two More Writers for Shakespeare Effort 2013-09-09T10:00:01Z At the other end are the red-in-tooth-and-claw British and American merchants in Canton who, forbidden to bring Western women with them, reverted to childhood, playing leapfrog at all hours of day and night. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The story begins with 23-year-old Gandhi's arrival in South Africa, where he was to assist a Muslim merchant and his English attorney in a civil lawsuit. A portrait of Gandhi's growth as social reformer 2011-03-29T17:01:04Z They were likely brought back to the country by the 16th Century merchant William Strickland after a visit to the Americas, so they were still viewed as slightly exotic in the 19th Century. Dickens, refrigeration and New World turkey: Behind the decline of the traditional Christmas goose 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z In a backlash against the retail giant Amazon, France is preparing to impose new restrictions this summer that would bar online merchants from offering free shipments of discounted books. France Gives Cold Shoulder to Amazon 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z It seems that Gilbert à Becket, a merchant of London, “made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and was taken prisoner by a Saracen Lord.” Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z But merchants still believe that the dead-wood wish book works wonders in getting people to shop, in the stores and online. The art of holiday catalogues: Selling the $300 ax you never knew you wanted 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z With many shops in Seville struggling in the wake of the economic crisis, one group of merchants and artists banded together last November to reinvent their neighborhood. A Spanish SoHo Springs Up in Seville 2012-09-28T18:15:46Z When asked about the disproportion, Sylvia Sylvia-Cioffi, the executive director of the city’s chamber of commerce, said that as redevelopment continued, particularly on the West Side, she anticipates more merchants of color would be represented. Greetings (and Shopping) From Asbury Park, N.J. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z For example, there’s a text from the third century BC called The Root of Tastes, written by a merchant called Lu Buwei. There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z Americans bought a small percentage of the slaves sold by Arab merchants in east Africa. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z For generations, artisans and merchants in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto lived in thousands of traditional "machiya" townhouses that are steadily disappearing or falling into disrepair. Old machiya houses in Japan's Kyoto given new lease of life by niche loans 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z "Unlike the aristocracy," Priestland says in a Guardian podcast, merchants are not snobs. JK Rowling is wrong: it's money, not class, that we worship 2012-09-29T23:01:17Z U-576 attacked merchant and military ships in a convoy sailing to Key West, Florida, from Norfolk, Virginia, on July 15, 1942. Sunken World War II submarine is found near North Carolina A novel by a Seattle writer about a modern-day British merchant ship encountering "pirates, war lords, rebel insurgents, government agents, shadowy oil interests and enigmatic business magnates" off the Horn of Africa. Newly released books with local ties include 'Kiss'em Goodbye' and 'Out of Body' 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z Mr. Durst was then charged with murdering and dismembering a former merchant seaman who lived across the hall from him in Galveston. HBO Plans Documentary on Robert Durst 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Good merchants can rise to the challenge of offering a good Bourgueil other than the one I suggest, or another sub-$20 California cabernet. 20 Under $20: Beckoning Bottles in the Dead of Winter 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z "The Finger Lakes region of New York is a source for superb Rieslings" -- well, I look forward to testing this statement, in hope that wine merchants in the Mid West stock New York wines. Last-Minute Buys for Thanksgiving Wines 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z To walk Fifth Avenue north from 34th Street to Central Park this season is to discover a startling paucity of merchants making more than a token nod to the holidays in their window displays. We Need a Miracle on 34th Street 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Though the death of cash has been much discussed, in many foreign destinations cash is still king and allows merchants to forgo the fee they must pay credit card companies on each transaction. Thrifty Strategies for Senior Travelers 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In his book Plagues and Peoples, the historian William Hardy McNeill describes how the British army carried cholera overland into Nepal and Afghanistan, while British navy and merchant ships carried it beyond the Indian Ocean. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z His father, Fince, was a merchant seaman, and his mother, Rose, was a homemaker. Patrick Adams, Master of New York’s Underground Disco Scene, Dies at 72 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z She also praised Fab’s including photos of the designers or merchants the site showcases. Flash Sales Offer More Than a Quick Deal 2012-07-25T18:15:04Z “Bristol was an old trading port, so there are several old wine merchants there,” he says. What did the founding fathers drink? And other pressing wine questions. 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Tallinn was a stronghold of the Baltic-Hanseatic maritime world, and the Tallinn City Museum provides a fascinating introduction to the glory days of merchant traders. Embracing Estonia’s singing revolution 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Erected by a Bengali merchant in 1835, the extravagant building is home to artworks from several European countries. Three Hours in Kolkata 2011-08-18T14:20:00Z What’s also true is that the play within the play — the story of a merchant, a daughter, the daughter’s lover — isn’t so engrossing. ‘The Knight of the Burning Pestle’ Review: Wielding His Trusty Kitchen Tools 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z This helps to explain that remarkable paean Marx and Engels offer up to the bourgeoisie at the start of The Communist Manifesto – the iconoclastic merchants transforming markets and destroying the old "society of orders". Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z Never mind that the 15th- and 16th-century material on view includes a selection of maps, which were essential to the merchants and naval commanders of Europe’s busiest port city. Art Review: ‘Renaissance Venice’ at the Morgan Library & Museum 2012-05-31T21:44:28Z Conservation groups are actively working to preserve this fragile monument, where ancient havelis, or merchants’ houses, with lacelike screen walls of wood or stone crowd narrow lanes. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z Would-be fair actors were held to exacting standards, and every merchant, knight and noble was trained in Elizabethan English and mannerisms. Phyllis Patterson, Who Revived 16th Century, Dies at 82 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Though the churro gained popularity in Spain, the roots of this pastry actually trace back to China, where Portuguese merchants tried youtiao. Disney shared its bite-sized churros recipe, and you should dip them in chocolate or dulce de leche 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z “We offer an assortment of brands, but Hanky Panky continues to be a category leader,” David Law, the chief merchant at Lord & Taylor, wrote in an email. Hanky Panky, Made in the U.S.A. Since 1977 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Bunches are displayed hanging before a warehouse, flanked by tall Norwegians in formal suits and hats, local merchants and dignitaries, posed ceremonially, as if welcoming royalty. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The first-act bazaar, with its animated merchants, slaves, townspeople, eunuchs and pirates, bustles colorfully. St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet revises the pirate-tale classic 'Le Corsaire' 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It was built in 1936 for the Fulton brothers, Scottish steel merchants, and owned briefly by Hartley Shawcross, the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. T Magazine: Duran Duran Sails Back to 'Rio' 2012-05-04T20:16:26Z His father worked in advertising but had earlier served in the merchant marine — an occupation that had a profound effect on the younger Mr. Hutton. Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Consequently, the mall offers a dizzying smorgasbord of rules: Some merchants request masks, some gently suggest them, others don’t bother. How do we feel about the mall these days? 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z To do something like Friday I'm in Love and to have that video and still have people say 'The doom and gloom merchants,' it's just irritating. The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-21T12:17:40Z Her father, Sam, was a founder and chairman of Sherry-Lehmann, the New York wine merchant. Jane Aaron, Filmmaker Whose Animation Sprouted on ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 67 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Are we really ruled by merchants for example? Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z A minute later, the movie turns to Howard D. Schultz, the Starbucks founder and executive, who recalls that his first Automat experience is what made him want to be a merchant. ‘The Automat’ Review: Put a Nickel in the Slot for Nostalgia 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z It does appear as though he's using it as an excuse not to go to the wedding, though – since when is Campbell the type to be offended by bottom-line merchants like Harry? Mad Men: season three, episode 12 2010-04-07T21:45:00Z That’s because Jeremiah Lee himself, a wealthy merchant who helped fund the patriot cause, died just as the Revolution was getting underway. North of Boston, a Mix of Harbor and History 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z A Saudi spice merchant mopes at home as his wife, cloaked in a black abaya, goes to visit her aunt. | The TV Watch: Saudi Arabia: Ramadan TV Gently Pushes Saudi Boundaries 2012-08-20T02:22:34Z The new episode finds the former manager of paper merchant Wernham Hogg working as a talent manager in the music industry. Ricky Gervais back as David Brent, while Derek passes the taste test 2013-03-05T15:19:48Z In November, after long debate, Congress decided to arm American merchant ships. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The cobblestone streets are packed with merchants and shoppers until sunset, when the action moves to the pubs. | Video: Street Style in Shoreditch, London 2014-02-20T17:57:17Z And then there was “Mutant Zebra-Eel in a Paint Store,” in which they tried to persuade a merchant to exhibit a new life form in his shop window. Mal Sharpe, Groundbreaker in Street-Level Pranking, Dies at 83 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Woodruff then sold it to a lumber merchant named George Gress, who moved it to Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood, which was also home to the recently created Atlanta Zoo. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Sido was the daughter of a mulatto merchant from Martinique and a French woman from Versailles, and had grown up in a bourgeois but politically liberal milieu in Brussels. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The merchants who followed in their wake brought back to the markets of Europe spices, textiles and porcelain, but also nautilus shells, corals, ivory, rhinoceros horns, ostrich eggs and much else besides. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “So she shows it in other ways, such as throwing spears through poor merchant captains’s heads.” 'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Keisha Castle-Hughes on the Tao of the Sand Snakes 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Gracie, a shipping merchant, owned slaves whose forced labor helped build the house, a fact that Conservancy guides discuss on tours. On Display at the People’s House: A Century of Persistence 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z His father was a diamond merchant and his mother was, for a time, the director of a school that taught shorthand. Steven Kroll, an Author of Children?s Books, Dies at 69 2011-03-15T05:19:44Z The merchants spent much of their lives on the road, but they built sprawling residences and public gathering places in their home villages to house their families and display their wealth. Next Time You're in ... Anhui 2011-05-26T15:50:00Z When you realise that this market was threatened with extinction and was saved by a group of merchants, it becomes even more impressive. 10 of the world’s best markets: readers’ travel tips 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Instead of entering the factory, he sailed at 16 on a merchant ship from Boston to Calcutta. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s a subject close to the author’s heart; Mohamed has compared Mattan’s biography to her own father’s, both merchant sailors who were born in the same city and came to England at the same age. In Nadifa Mohamed’s Latest, a Man Hangs for a Murder He Didn’t Commit 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Eager to turn a profit, the ever-avaricious English entrusted indigenous merchants with the conduct of cotton and opium trade with China. 'Mumbai Fables': Gyan Prakash's fact-packed, rewarding history of the city 2010-12-22T22:06:04Z Back then, Burgundy was still dominated by big négociants, merchants who bought grapes or wine from vignerons and bottled and sold it under their own labels. A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Bancroft listed names of slave brokers, commission merchants and auctioneers, and detailed how slave auctions were advertised and carried out. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Shortly after he graduated from Harvard, Lawrence created a business niche as a commission merchant selling manufactured textiles produced in New England mills. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z The Pay With Square app stores customers’ credit card info, and merchant users keep a “tab” for each customer under his or her name. Apps you don’t have to use 2012-07-23T15:10:00Z After the war, Forten became a successful merchant and prominent abolitionist. This interactive museum outside Williamsburg, Va., brings the American Revolution to life 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The college housing office director became “a demented speed merchant who should be castrated by a rabid, Olympic elk.” If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Parris had grown up in an affluent merchant family in Barbados; he had no prior pastoral experience when he took the pulpit in 1689, for reasons that remain murky. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Of course there is, and always will be, the occasional merchant or customer who cheats. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z It also seems oddly punctilious that an outlaw is always addressed as Señor Zorro and shocking that a Franciscan monk would be whipped in a public square for supposedly swindling a merchant. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Rottenberg barked, policing her wares as if she were a real pearl merchant. Venice Biennale Features Mika Rottenberg’s ‘NoNoseKnows’ 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “In some cases they’d redo it,” he said, referring to the merchants who were able to get their machines to accept his Visa card. Practical Traveler: How to Avoid Credit Card Problems Abroad 2011-06-08T14:49:15Z There she falls for a rich merchant and becomes pregnant. When Witches Run in the Family 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It was presented to Charles II on his restoration to the British throne, by a group of Dutch merchants led by Johannes Klencke. The Klencke Atlas 2010-05-11T08:12:00Z In between stints as a merchant seaman, McGrath drifted out to California, corresponding and visiting with Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles and Henry Miller in Big Sur. Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled With Rare Recordings. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z On her wedding night, she entertains the king by starting, but not finishing, a story about a merchant and a demon. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z He grew up in Saint-Étienne, in east central France, where his father was a wine merchant. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z SAT-SUN Arts and crafts vendors, merchants sidewalk sale, quilt display, entertainment, food vendors, Kids Fest, Farmers Market, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-01T23:37:08Z Or hike inland to discover hideaway guesthouses carved from old gem merchants’ homes, with mango gardens and infinity pools tucked into their courtyards. Next Stop: In Postwar Sri Lanka, Beaches, Temples and Military Checkpoints 2010-03-12T02:50:00Z With the arrival of Mr. Drexler — who soon became known as the “merchant prince” — came the pocket tees, the khakis and the sweaters that would signal an end to the brand’s youth. Was the Gap Ever Cool? A Look at 50 Years in Denim and Khaki 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z In another corner of the conflict, Abouzeid tells the story of an Alawite perfume merchant whose wife and eldest daughter are murdered, and whose other children are taken hostage by a jihadist faction. War Without End 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Gauguin was born in 1848, spent his early years in Peru and enlisted in the French merchant marine while still a teenager. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z He calls the merchant posters “parasitic” for the way they profit from misfortune. An Artist’s Mythic Rebellion for the Venice Biennale 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Then there's Buchanan and Goodwin, my find of the week – 1950s cut-up merchants who construct an Wellesian Martian invasion, only with every other line delivered by popular songs of the day. Readers recommend ? the results: songs with jokes 2010-09-02T22:31:00Z His father, Jorge, a steward in the merchant marine, brought home bongos and congas from Brazil, which Dave began practicing on when he was 5. Dave Valentin, a Grammy Award-Winning Latin Jazz Flutist, Dies at 64 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z “I was the son of this kind of displaced merchant prince,” Mr. Goldman told The Times in 1993. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Lance struggled to keep a job for longer than a few months there, before eventually finding work at a local builders’ merchant. ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Can we just have a plain old merchant? Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z Set in medieval England and narrated by a village priest, Harvey’s suspenseful fourth novel tells what happens after a wealthy merchant is found drowned at the beginning of Lent, with murder suspected. New in Paperback: ‘The Browns of California’ and ‘The Far Field.’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Most closely associated with Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, machiya developed as merchant townhouses from the 17th to the 19th centuries with several common features. In Kyoto, Tradition Meets Today 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Bitter, rich old merchant Mr Panton makes a will in which his beautiful and accomplished daughter Constance will be disinherited unless she marries a man not "below the rank of baron". John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z The company has tested live shopping streams with Walmart and plans to open the feature to more merchants. Will TikTok Make You Buy It? 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z After touring the bustling merchants’ room, I bought two NecronomiCon prints from their creator, Dean Kuhta, who lives in Richmond, as well as — I couldn’t resist — a “Make Cthulhu Great Again” button. Review | Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . . 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Seeking adventure beyond his native country, he joined the merchant navy after graduation. Alain Tanner, Leading Director in Swiss New Wave, Dies at 92 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Mass merchants moved out roughly 50% of their "Avatar" DVDs, the spokesman added. "Avatar" sets first-day Blu-ray sales record 2010-04-23T13:33:00Z Mr. Morris, a retired wine merchant who lives in the region, has extensively updated and expanded the book. The Year’s Best Wine Books 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z On Feb. 15, 1689, about four months after his arrival, he wrote to a merchant in London asking for a complete “account of musical compositions and performances in the town.” The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z That included the historic museum of the Hanseatic League, the medieval merchant powerhouse with posts around the Baltic. Shetland Isles to Norway: Cruising the land of the midnight sun 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But like any good Sicilian, the salt merchant couldn’t leave us with just salt. In Sicily, Tasting Seafood With a Skeptical Son 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Too young to join the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the second world war, he signed up with the merchant navy. Iain Crawford obituary 2011-08-04T17:21:28Z “It” is a valuable painting by Modigliani, an oil portrait of a dapper chocolate merchant in a hat and tie, seated and holding a cane. Owner of a Modigliani Portrait Is Adamant the Work Isn’t Nazi Loot 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The merchants prospered, not the farmers, who were often subject to arbitrary price changes or decisions not to buy grapes at all, if the merchants decided the market warranted such a drastic step. A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z "Search for the Jefferson Davis: Trader, Slaver, Raider," released in March, tells the story of a merchant ship-turned-slaver-turned-privateer that was renamed after the president of the Confederacy. Black seaman's 1861 heroics recalled in new film 2011-07-07T15:30:30Z Three items of current, unrelated book news suggest that now – as never before – the printed word remains in rude good health, despite the merchants of doom. Bookselling heads for a merry Christmas 2010-12-06T17:17:00Z A full refund may be the safest decision if your vacation has been canceled, and in many cases, merchants are legally required to offer it. Perspective | Try these expert negotiation strategies for refunding or rescheduling your vacation 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z At the start, we learn of Horace, a wealthy merchant from Florence, who nine years earlier was captured by pirates and sold into slavery, along with his loyal servant Laurence. Music Review: Unearthing A Charmer Predating Bastille Day 2011-02-11T21:54:28Z The Old Town, less than a square mile of neo-Classical and neo-Baroque buildings, was traditionally one of the city’s main areas of commerce, occupied by merchants, beautiful churches and traditional inns. In Bucharest, the Old Town Sees New Life 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Now held every 20 years, the Guild dates back to the 12th century when local merchants were given exceptional rights and privileges which they celebrated once a generation. Preston plans to write itself into the future 2012-08-29T10:00:00Z In 1913, Edward Hopper—then 30 years old—sold his first painting ever at the inaugural Armory Show in New York to Thomas F. Vietor, a merchant from New Jersey. 17 Edward Hopper Artworks Are on View at the Carnegie Museum of Art 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Replace as needed, preferably by becoming a regular at a good wine shop and developing a beneficial relationship with a knowledgeable merchant. A Guide to Drinking Wine at Home 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z In both movies, the mermaid Ariel wants out of her widowed father’s underwater kingdom and into the arms of the earthbound merchant prince whom she rescues in a shipwreck. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z He began his career in finance, working for Canadian investment firm Central Capital Corp. as an associate in its merchant banking division, according to a U.S. Failed film deal leads to allegations of fraud, money laundering 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z A generation ago, Mr. Doonan would have had to acknowledge an influence so powerful it drove merchants and garment makers to rush line-for-line knockoffs into production. Film and Fashion: Just Friends 2010-03-04T16:34:00Z In reality, he says, chefs are basically "soup merchants." For Pepin, cooking is about technique, not stardom 2011-08-03T13:34:09Z Commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici in 1459, the fresco turned the chapel into a vision of paradise, with cheetahs and birds, as imagined by the newly emerging merchant class. 36 Hours: Florence 2010-07-23T06:19:00Z I have a cousin who's a merchant marine, and he's gone for four months — and he said I could stay in his apartment for free. Q&A: Jonathan Russell from The Head and the Heart 2012-09-13T13:30:20Z His father's only idea of how his son might help himself is by encouraging him to join the merchant navy. We Had It So Good by Linda Grant - review 2011-01-30T00:38:01Z Pintard, a merchant and founder of the New York Historical Society, used and sold imagery of Saint Nicholas to combat British influence. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Born in Liverpool, Jacques left school at 15 to become a merchant seaman. 'Redwall' author Brian Jacques dies at 71 2011-02-09T15:43:14Z He claimed that his father was a Roman Catholic and a diplomat, but the Budapest ledgers list Adolf as a Jewish merchant. Antiques: Gleaning the True Identity of an Enigmatic Forger 2011-04-07T21:00:28Z For the greatest refund windfall, Townsend suggests binge- buying at one store — say, bulk up on Irish fisherman sweaters from one Killarney merchant. Gimme back my VAT! Many aspects of his life are left out: the real Mr. Williams, a former merchant seaman, enjoys occasional company and works as a gardener and substitute teacher. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z One was ordered by Henry Laurens, a founding father, wealthy merchant and slave trader from South Carolina. Was This Washington Portrait Really by Charles Peale? Experts Took a Look 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z “It is unknown whether the treasure was part of a royal stash or property of a merchant,” Mr. Engel said. Treasures of Afghan History, Art and Culture 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The true genius of the Diamond District, I discovered, is a reputation mechanism that rewards honest behavior and shuns merchants with a blemished record. "Uncut Gems" celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District, a neighborhood that’s a window into the past 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z In the 16th century, Antwerp was Europe’s richest place, attracting merchants from across the continent. This Belgian cosmopolitan port city offers art, diamonds, ale, architecture — and chocolate 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z In less than 48 hours, she was off to get married to a merchant banker on a Jamaican beach with a Rastafarian officiating. How The Great Game emptied the Pentagon 2011-03-01T21:29:00Z He lived comfortably, financed by his merchant father, and led an almost perversely placid existence, once turning down travel because he was worried it would give him even more ideas. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Whether the drinkers are whales or minnows, merchants are finding that nothing catches them like a romantic spiel. In Las Vegas, a Good Story Helps Sell Expensive Sakes 2011-02-02T05:40:04Z In the 1690s, long before we had a First Amendment, a Boston merchant named Robert Calef dared to publish a book denouncing the witchcraft trials in Salem. Perspective | A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The merchant tribe is inspired by the Tuareg, ethnic Berbers of the Sahara, Ms. Carter said. The Afrofuturistic Designs of ‘Black Panther’ 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z His father was a senator and grain merchant, and when he died his family lost its power and influence and much of its money. Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ Intimately Recaptures a Literary Giant 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z An online travel agency is using the merchant model when it requires consumers to pay at the time of booking, whether it is for a flight, hotel stay or a vacation package. Allegation in Hunters’ indictment raises issue of how Expedia charges appear on bank statements 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z On the coast of northern Germany, Lübeck – a Unesco world heritage site – is famous for its Hanseatic merchant houses, river views and, most of all, its marzipan. 20 of the best Baltic beach holidays 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The merchant asks them to move; they refuse. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It's inspired by the role of the merchant navy in the second world war, Moore says, "told from the point of view of the men who were there". Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-05T17:06:24Z The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z The cheese merchant maintained that the rabbis still living in Aleppo, the ones who had passed him the book, told him no more than to give it to “a religious man.” ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z “Typhoon” is very much of its time — the story of an uninspiring merchant ship captain and his crew facing a storm in the South China Sea. Reed Hastings, the Founder of Netflix, Keeps His Library in His Pocket 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z He had been born into a family once of moderate prosperity whose fortunes had been dissipated in drink, which was readily to hand – they had been wine merchants. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z In the ’80s he had enough capital to get serious about fur and leather, but many merchants would not sell to him. The Fashion Outlaw Dapper Dan 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z He married a woman called Irene Ferrett and quickly frittered away his inheritance on a failed confectioner's shop in Mumbles – Hayward, in one of his better jokes, calls him a humbug merchant. Double Agent Snow by James Hayward – review 2013-01-04T22:55:13Z He is 76 and describes himself as “a picaresque guy” from New Orleans, with artistic tendencies that he channeled into a career as a merchant. Is This the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Also through consonants: When he says “boardwalk” — a thing he despises, with its “so-called amusements” and “lox and bagel merchants” — the word has three syllables: the board, the wal and the k. ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Waterways, forests and fertile soil enriched a gentry focused on raising tobacco, including William Churchill, a 1670s settler who prospered as planter, merchant and officeholder. Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia Ruthless merchants often hired sailors in Europe to go to, say, the Caribbean only to abandon them there after recruiting a cheaper crew for the return voyage. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z He held down jobs as a soldier, merchant and lawyer before entering government. Henry’s hooray 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The tears are sold to merchants who use the precious myrrh for many different reasons, many of them imbued with religious significance. A blizzard of kids' books celebrating holidays 2011-12-09T08:31:12Z High-ranking members of the imperial court or wealthy merchants commissioned clocks with ever more complicated movements, and the European timepieces became an important part of court life. They Look Like the Emperors’ Clocks. But Are They Real? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Recipes varied and moved with voyagers, mostly merchants. The Legend of King Solomon and the Passover Feast 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z He parlayed his interest into a job with a New York distributor, selling wine to merchants and restaurants far more interested in buying spirits. The Accidental Wine Educator 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z But if they can’t find the exact bottle you are looking for, good wine merchants can often suggest something similar. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Fall Edition 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The son of an innkeeper, Mr Morrison became one of the wealthiest British merchants of the 19th Century and a prolific art collector. Constable's The Lock fetches £22m 2012-07-03T21:30:28Z Like many of the cleverest comedians, he is a high-class long-pause merchant. Comedy Gold – Zach Galifianakis's Live at the Purple Onion 2013-01-17T13:01:19Z Set in Meiji-era Japan, players are merchants in the fishing village of Yokohama. Pick a Card and Be Transported: 7 Board Games From Around the World 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The aquatic scene, in which a giant whale opens up to swallow a merchant ship, is especially lively. Art in Review: ?THE ROMAN MOSAIC From Lod, Israel? 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z The best thing, if you can’t find any of these, is to consult with a merchant at a good wine shop. The What and Why of Orange Wines 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Probably not, because merchants with too many credit card disputes could lose the ability to receive payment by credit card. Perspective | Hotel guests are baffled by after-the-fact damage charges. Here’s what’s going on. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z For the first years of its existence it was occupied by jewelry merchants, who, for security purposes, drove their cars into a special elevator at street level and were taken directly to their floors. Welcome to Chicago, Just Don?t Kill Us 2011-06-23T19:45:52Z HAARLEM, the Netherlands — Frans Hals, a Dutch Golden Age portraitist of wealthy merchants and jolly rogues, was popular and successful in his lifetime, but before he died, he fell out of fashion. Museums Shake Things Up by Mixing Old and New 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Her father was a sand merchant and her mother was a teacher who gave up work as soon as she got married. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z Even before the merchant ship leaves English waters, the crew complains that their rations are rotten, the biscuits crawling with weevils and the meat spoiled. Review | William Clark Russell’s ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor’ is a transporting nautical adventure 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Under the unctuous tutelage of local merchant Monsieur Lhereux, Emma, who has a weakness for personal vanity, discovers the joys of conspicuous consumption. 'Madame Bovary' lovely but as constrained as Flaubert's heroine 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Mrs. Fields, a New Yorker who died last summer at 89, inherited her wealth from her husband’s family, who were wool merchants. ArtsBeat: Avid Reader Leaves Library $6 Million in Her Will 2014-03-12T18:31:26Z “What the merchant is really seeking is to connect itself with talent,” said Imran Amed, the editor of The Business of Fashion, an industry website. Target’s Newest Dance Partner? Joseph Altuzarra. 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z He didn’t want to be a merchant of despair. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z American Express runs its own payment network and does not allow merchants to do dynamic currency conversion. How to Avoid Being Fleeced When Using a Credit Card Overseas 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Also known as "the city of tribes" after the 14 merchant families that ruled between the 13th and 19th centuries, Galway has the highest concentration of native Irish speakers. Trip tips: Galway, Ireland's most Irish city 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z That included putting the designer, Raf Simons, up at the Pierre, and flying in his studio, the atelier, a visual merchandising team, international executives, buyers and merchants. For Dior’s Cruise Collection, a River View 2014-05-09T20:52:59Z And until Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former president, lobbied for a Supreme Court building, the nation's highest court shared office space over the years with merchants, lower courts and Congress. Former justice pens history book about the Court 2013-03-06T19:13:08Z In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act: a law that limited Chinese immigration and was renewed in various forms until 1943, prohibiting entry to Chinese laborers while allowing students, teachers, merchants and diplomats. ‘Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion’ Exhibition Opens 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In Mexico, where a nominally leftist president has suggested that eating healthy foods instead of junk could prevent contagion, dozens of merchants have died in Latin America’s largest wholesale produce market. What We Eat During a Plague 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It is an extraordinary place – an early 18th-century house built for a Huguenot silk merchant. East London's top five culture highlights 2012-07-27T21:44:01Z Jewelry salespeople peddle their products to passersby, luring customers in a way that evokes the merchants of an Old World bazaar. "Uncut Gems" celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District, a neighborhood that’s a window into the past 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Despite his misgivings, St. James joins forces with the New Orleans Police Department after a double homicide on a seedy street leads him to a far-flung conspiracy of arms merchants. Review: The action is fast in Kovacs' `Good Junk' 2012-12-10T15:23:11Z Rather than presenting them as her own artworks, she describes them as depicting members of the UmuEze Amara, one of the oldest noble clans in Nigeria, and the Obafemi, minor aristocrats, merchants and ambassadors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z In the 18th century Hydra was filled with wealthy merchants, admirals and sea captains who built mini stone palazzos in the Venetian style, which now flank the hills around the port like couture-clad sentries. Cultured Traveler: Latest Stop on the Art Circuit? Hydra, Greece 2011-08-12T15:02:07Z By the early 20th century they’d developed into social centers where children played and merchants delivered ice and coal. Montreal’s Green Alleyways Take Visitors Backstage 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There are copious 3-D projections, holograms, interactive elements and even a ship simulator that reimagines the maritime journeys of wine merchants throughout history. Celebrating Food and Wine in Bordeaux 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z This was once the largest covered produce market in Ireland, filled with merchants selling butchered meat and fish. Decades after ‘Troubles,’ Belfast blooms with history, resilience 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z At the National Gallery here, in a room where the crowds tend to thin, hang Rembrandt’s two Trips: There’s Jacob, the grumpy Dordrecht merchant, with that eyebrow raised and that vaguely disapproving, deadpan glare. Postcard From London: On a Gallery?s Walls, the Circle of Life 2011-06-15T20:23:29Z Piloting that massive shopping cart, like a trader of old navigating a merchant ship full of cargo from faraway lands. TV Tonight: The Costco Craze 2012-04-26T15:59:04Z Shopkeepers in these Moroccan cities become your companion-guides, none more attentive than the rug merchants. Art Review: ?Rags to Richesse,? Moroccan Rugs at Cavin-Morris 2010-07-22T22:39:00Z If shopping is on the schedule, this is the neighborhood to roam; the free-spirited North Shore merchants include art galleries, handmade jewelry and gift shops, clothing stores, cafes, tattoo parlors and record stores. 36 Hours in Chattanooga 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z But merchants like Ms. Rose and Mr. Blandi are looking for more than just exposure. Skin Deep: At What Price Beauty? Check Today?s Deal 2011-04-12T23:26:40Z If there's one thing the blockbuster merchants realised in 2012, it's that movies don't really have to make sense any more. 2012: the year of the dumb blockbuster 2012-12-29T00:07:33Z “The first foldable fans were exported from Asia to Europe by trading companies into the merchants ports of Genoa, Venice and Lisbon,” Ms. Falluel said. Fantasies Unmasked in the Folds of a Fan 2012-11-21T15:59:44Z A chargeback voids a credit-card transaction by withdrawing funds that were previously deposited into a merchant’s bank account and applying credit back to your card. Travelers are turning to credit-card disputes when other routes to a refund have failed 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z From there, the products were sold — no longer to local merchants or colonial enterprises — but, instead, to international corporations, which imported and then distributed them to their own clients around the world. When it comes to sustainable spices, ‘single-origin’ isn’t everything 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Donated school supplies will be distributed by merchants, and there will also be other giveaways from Brooklyn cultural institutions. Spare Times for Aug. 17-23 2012-08-16T22:27:39Z Hudson Made, an online merchant of American-made artisanal products, introduced earlier this month its own Beard & Shave Soap, $14.50, a mild cleanser that aims to keep facial hair soft and skin moisturized. Skin Deep: Taming of the Beard 2013-01-30T18:10:44Z They say the weekend fairs are causing merchant sales to drop considerably, unfairly competing with permanent businesses. Prescott merchants complain about arts fair 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z The bourgeois — a doctor, a merchant, a usurer — are his main target, their music rootless, full of inane little scales that crescendo to deafening, unconducted carnage that implodes into deserved nothingness. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In Whisky Galore! some Scottish villagers help themselves when a whisky-laden merchant ship is wrecked on their shores. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z “The Devil’s Needle” is certainly preachy, but unlike so many later addiction melodramas it doesn’t feel the need to sacrifice its characters — there are happy endings to be had for everyone but the drug merchants. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z Presumably that was the appeal for Amsterdam merchants in the 17th century who enjoyed peering into tranquil rustic worlds painted with a cartographer's eye for the shapes of fields. The still waters of Dutch landscape paintings run deep 2010-04-29T11:02:00Z To historians it’s a centuries-long occupation of East African soil by seafaring merchants and middlemen from foreign lands. Swahili, the Pulse of Life at the Crossroads 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z He painted hundreds of images that show the customs and characters of 19th century Lima, including artisans, merchants, soldiers and water vendors with their donkeys. Read Your Way Through Lima 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Can death-metal fans really enjoy Cannibal Corpse and 31 other doom merchants while sailing from Miami to the Grand Caymans? Rock Cruises, Bright Spots for the Cruise and Music Industries 2012-03-30T14:51:16Z Maps were engraved and printed there not just for monarchs but for merchants and their families. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z “The logo and treatment reference merchant posters found from L.A.’s Westside to Eastside, which point to the fluidity of both economics and culture.” Artist Mark Bradford creates a bold logo for the Santa Monica Museum of Art's new identity as ICA LA 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Asking a bank to force a merchant to return your money is typically a last resort. Perspective | How to file a credit card dispute for your canceled vacation — and win 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Responding to a shift in mood, progressive merchants like Acne, Vince and Rag & Bone display men’s and women’s clothes in proximity, some occasionally mixing them on the racks. In Fashion, Gender Lines Are Blurring 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z My fascination with the politics of clothing size began in 2004 when I worked at A&F corporate as a merchant in their outerwear division. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z His narrative dissects the tragic effects of an organized group of local police officers, merchants and Democratic politicians who supported Southern slave catchers unleashed upon the city’s Black community by federal fugitive slave law. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “Disputing the charge before your trip is over could lead to whatever legs of the trip you have left to be canceled by the merchant, leaving you stranded,” he says. Travelers are turning to credit-card disputes when other routes to a refund have failed 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “I appreciate the respectful milieu here, even if the classes don’t mix very much,” said Alain Naudeau, a merchant who sells jewelry from Indonesia and Thailand here. | ?le de R? Idyll 2011-08-11T21:14:17Z Shoppers, merchants and tourists amble over sidewalk and street alike. In Transit: Revisiting a 'Surfaced' Amsterdam Area 2011-01-28T11:00:47Z But even before then, Asians migrated to the Americas, beginning in the 1500s, as slaves, sailors, merchants, explorers and adventurers. 'The Making of Asian America' is a stirring chronicle long overdue 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z His supporters included Muslim merchants, Hindu artisans and Tamil laborers. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Her father, a grain merchant, had died of tuberculosis the previous year, and the pogroms that followed the 1905 Russian Revolution threatened. A Forgotten Pioneer’s Art World Is Resurrected at the Jewish Museum 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z As he was given his assignment, he was told by a merchant marine bureaucrat, “So far as anybody’s concerned, your father is a bartender on the West Side.” Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z Under the FCBA, you’re not required to contact a merchant first about a billing error, but you may be able to resolve the problem without a dispute. Perspective | How to file a credit card dispute for your canceled vacation — and win 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In addition to his 32 novels, the onetime merchant marine and naval officer also wrote a respected history of the Navy, as well as a variety of other biographical, historical and polemical works. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Describing it to the Russian textile merchant Sergei Shchukin, who had commissioned it, and whose patronage enabled Matisse to build the studio, the artist wrote “The painting is surprising at first. It is obviously new.” ‘The Red Studio,’ Matisse’s Masterpiece, Gets a Life All Its Own 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The city hall is Neo-Gothic — recalling the age when local merchants ran the government. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z To contemplate the grandiose chiselled memorials to shipwrights, merchants and manufacturers in the Eastern Necropolis at Dundee is almost to breathe the air of the prosperous Victorian days of the great jute city. Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd 2010-12-30T00:05:09Z In the years after Bishop’s death, Methfessel worked as a bartender, a butcher, a travel agent, and an antique merchant. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Life on the Road will follow the paper merchant turned travelling salesman’s last-ditch attempt to be a rock star. Out of the Office: Mackenzie Crook on David Brent movie - 'Nobody's been in touch' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The size of many of the former merchant homes still impresses. Next Stop: In Anhui, China, Centuries-Old Charm 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z Try that now, and merchants of doubt rush to the first amendment and the rights of corporate citizens. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Curator Tom Wareham said he wanted to highlight the degree to which corrupt lawmakers, conniving noblemen, and greedy London merchants all played their part in funding, outfitting and organizing pirate expeditions. Was Captain Kidd set up? New exhibit airs doubts 2011-05-19T16:46:11Z You hear street merchants calling out their catch of the day, maybe a bag of sardines, turbot from the Black Sea or a kilo of mussels. The best food they ate in 2015 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Variable as they are, most such looks are short on what merchants call hanger appeal, their multiple personalities tucked away inside mysterious folds. Convertible Clothing Is a New Twist for the Cost-Conscious 2011-01-19T23:12:08Z “I would assume he’s not pretending to be a merchant.” Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z In 1622 a Spanish merchant ship carrying an unprecedented amount of gold, silver, jewels, and other treasures of the Andes sank off the coast of Florida en route to Spain. Explore 1,000 Years of Andean Culture in a New Exhibition in Dallas 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z He worked in the merchant marine and took a string of other jobs, including installing stereo systems on the side, before gaining an entry-level position at the Carnegie Hall Recording Company in 1950. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But the merchants rarely disclose that you are paying them an extra fee of 3 percent to 8 percent, sometimes more, bringing the cost of that Indian hotel room to $105 or $110. How to Avoid Being Fleeced When Using a Credit Card Overseas 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z If Matt Damon was known for anything before Ripley, it was as a doughfaced merchant of blandness who had somehow finagled his way to a best original screenplay Oscar for Good Will Hunting. Steve Carell’s Foxcatcher: when good guys go bad 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z When he reaches the merchant, he has the orchestra go crazy, making a place now for fanciful pathos at the end, which is sublimely Schubertean for maiden and, especially, child. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Wine professionals like sommeliers and retail merchants are skilled at translating emotions to wines. How to Buy Wine: Five Questions to Ask 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It was a portrait commissioned by a Calcutta-based merchant for his trading partners in Boston, but it is hard to imagine that this spooky doppelganger was received in the spirit it was sent. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Hot mulled wine is prolific at the Christmas market; to curb trash, you pay a deposit on a goblet that is returned when you hand over your empty cup to any merchant. A beacon of Christmas tradition in Strasbourg, France 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z From the 14th through the early 20th centuries, Galata was the city’s center of trade with the West, home to European merchants and industrialists. Heads Up: Design Ateliers Set Up Shop in Istanbul 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z In a 1971 conversation with Glover, Dylan discussed why he changed his name, saying: “A lot of people are under the impression that Jews are just money lenders and merchants.” Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495K 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z On a recent evening at the Paris wine merchant La Contre-étiquette, www.la-contre-etiquette.com, two dozen 20- to 40-somethings were gathered in the cozy boutique. Wine: Best Enjoyed Young 2010-06-23T09:20:00Z The later Medicis completed the change from merchants to aristocrats and even royals. The Medicis: money, myth and mystery 2011-08-10T16:36:28Z Both specialized in portraiture, capturing the prominent figures in their respective countries; for Velázquez, this meant the Spanish royal family; for Rembrandt, wealthy Dutch burghers and merchants. Old Masters, Who Never Met, in Conversation 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In the late 19th century, many governments and merchants agreed on the need to keep money stable by linking it to a rigid gold standard. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z His father, a landowner and wine merchant, was the mayor of Pescara, on the Adriatic coast. The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-22T12:00:01Z He later took his father’s advice and shipped out with the merchant marine. Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z She married a landsman, who became a diamond merchant; in the early nineteen-fifties, the couple resettled in the Bronx, and some fifteen years later, as empty-nesters, they went back to Israel. A Tribute to Women Who Reinvent Themselves, in Two Wardrobes at the Met 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The Sassoons were merchants, not bankers, and the Jewish Museum show stresses how closely their wealth — in cash, in art — grew and waned with that of the British Empire. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z I would hike through slums where street merchants sold black magic spices, then change my shirt to sip $15 cocktails in the neon glamour of a Hard Rock bar. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z Churchwell fills out her account with amusing period paraphernalia, such as Fitzgerald's recipe for bathtub gin, or a list of the era's new terminology: "cool", "slick", "mass media", "ritzy", "merchant bank". Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-29T08:00:35Z |
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