Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Shore Drive is a bas-relief of a woodman hacking a tree into logs, a sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a carpenter fashioning the lumber into furniture. Under this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy...
Like the Toy Fair in Manhattan, the Furniture Mart is for manufacturers and buyers only. Spectators may not attend without passes. The Chicago mart is not the only furniture exhibit but it is the most important. A competing show at Marshall Field & Co.'s huge Merchandise Mart housed 53 exhibitors and Manhattan's show which closed a fortnight ago was a huge success with 406. The Furniture Mart opened with 600. There the big retail stores select suites (pronounced "suits" by most of the trade) for display in the autumn, when the public does most of its furniture...
There Governor Cross of Connecticut came forward with outstretched hand to greet Harvard Alumnus Roosevelt. Through crowded streets the visitors drove to Yale's auditorium, Woolsey Hall, to attend the University's 233rd Commencement. While an orchestra played the overture to Die Meister singer, the President, leaning on his son's arm, marched upon the platform in black gown and took his seat among notables. One by one Yale's graduate students were given their degrees. William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps, himself unexpectedly presented with a doctorate of laws by President Angell, turned to citing the University...
...indulgent uncle took Mary to the opera one afternoon. After that there was no holding her back. She met the late Billy Guard, Mr. Gatti's kindly pressagent, who recommended a teacher. She had an audition early last winter. Mr. Gatti was noncommittal but he invited her to attend performances free. Her contract brought reports of an exceptionally clear voice, a range that extends to C above high C. Pretty Mary Moore commented: "It's not a very pretty note. It sounds like a mouse up in the attic...
...situation is perhaps paradoxical," said Count Pokolovsky, going on with his pressing, "but His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias having signed my credentials, I remain at my post. I attend all the functions of the Rumanian Court. Every Russian New Year I receive thousands of letters from His Majesty's loyal subjects in all parts of the world...