Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like harvest time in the wheat belt, like the fishing season on the Grand Banks, the opening of the dressmaking season is, to Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives...
...week's end when footsore buyers were ready to pack up with their order books suitably filled, the consensus on 1937 autumn styles seemed...
...February, when foreclosure proceedings were already well under way, it was revealed that Slip Madigan had received directly the check for $38,324.15 which New York's Fordham University gave St. Mary's after their Rams beat the Gaels 7-to-6 in Manhattan last autumn. Since Slip Madigan had been owed $21,690 from the 1934 and 1935 seasons, the Fordham check looked almost like a settlement. At the time the president of the college, Brother Albert, explained: "I paid Mr. Madigan because I recognized a just debt and because I recognize that he has brought certain...
...Whiffenpoof Song is a parody of Kipling's Gentlemen Rankers, whose refrain it uses almost intact. Not everyone knows that the score was written by an Amherst man, the late Tod Galloway, who put a lot of Kipling to music, or that the words date from the autumn of 1909 when cadaverous Meade Minnigerode, since famed as the author of The Son of Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they got the rights...
...Awaiting fine traffic from bumper crops in its territory this autumn, Illinois Central R. R. showed net operating income of $6,841,000 for the first half against $5,942,000 in the same six months last year...