Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other hazards to the glit glut. Manhattan jet-set Travel Agent Susan Stein recalls with a shudder the time recently when her sequined dress got tangled in the sequins belonging to Marie Edith Legendre, the French consul general's wife. "I took a small loss at my hem," says Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter...
This group became known as "the Eight," and made its impact on the U.S. scene with such glum paintings of the cluttered urban scene that they were dubbed "the Ashcan School." But, traveling abroad in 1912 as the agent for Philadelphia Millionaire Dr. Albert C. Barnes, inventor of the bland antiseptic Argyrol, Glackens became more impressed by the vigor of contemporary French painting, helped Barnes acquire at bargain prices high-toned paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse and Renoir...
...President was soon stretched out on a mobile bed. Into an arm vein, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward P. Didier and an assistant injected a muscle relaxant and a pre-anesthesia dose of a barbiturate to serve both as a mild analgesic and a calming agent...
...tactics. For example, to confirm that it has found Alfred Alumnus, whose last address was 1500 Shady Lane, Tracers may place a person-to-person call to William Alumnus at the suspected new address. "There's no William here; my husband is Alfred," the wife replies. Tracers' agent interrupts, tells the operator, "We're looking for the one who used to live at 1931 Shady Lane." "Oh no," says the wife, "we used to live at 1500-it's not us." But Tracers, of course, has nailed Alfred...
...that a majority of the workers signed the cards, but that BGMA president, Robert Richardson, never returned them. Some of the B & G workers at last night's meetings said that Richardson had become interested in having the International Union of Electrical Workers named as the B & G bargaining agent. Richardson himself was unavailable for comment last night...