He seriously protested that the bow of Blandois was perfect, that the address of Blandois was irresistible, and that the picturesque ease of Blandois would be cheaply purchased (if it were not a gift, and
unpurchasable) for a hundred thousand francs.
Instead, at fifty-five, the Belgian designer is cult-worshipped for a lush but grounded sensibility that defies an old argument: that fashion's unwearable and
unpurchasable moments are proof of its art.
The Brigade generated so much free publicity for Massey-Harris that Farm Implement News magazine sent Joe Tucker a tongue-in-cheek plaque which read "After reading all the press dispatches from the Plains run as
unpurchasable 'pure reading matter' in great cities' dailies on the progress of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade, we are about ready to declare an open season on Joe Tucker, the instigator of said Harvest Brigade.
The nitrosation product, 4-nitroso-2,5-dimethylresorcinol, is an
unpurchasable new reagent.
It should, like the American press, keep its influence a clean and
unpurchasable influence.
rare,
unpurchasable toys, each of which is an eternal memento of a forgotten human being" (156).