Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital's annual Washington's Birthday bargain binge, which was started by the Mode men's shop in 1919. Now almost all stores take part. Like Mickey Margoles, other Washingtonians had waited in nightlong vigils to get reconditioned typewriters for 99^, toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...
...morning Friday, the crowd at Zlotnick the Furrier's was so thick that a policeman was called. He ended up buying his wife a bargain fur coat ($39). At Hecht's, one of the biggest downtown department stores, an estimated 8,000 bargain hunters crammed in during the first 15 minutes after opening, driving the buyer in the kitchen furniture department right up on top of a dinette table...
...eight major U.S. dailies,* he found no sectional differences in language, except for "smog free" California real estate. A house is "cute," "a cutie," "adorable," "exquisite," "elegant," "a dandy," "magnificent," "glamorous," "spic & span," "clean as a pin," "a rare find"-and inevitably near everything and a "real bargain." A farm is never a farm but "a rural hideaway," "rustic retreat," or "secluded estate...
...Oeuvres. The 1952 spring and summer catalogue still offers such farm necessities as horse collars, castration clamps and animal feed (now reinforced with antibiotics). But there is also a choice of hors d'oeuvres dishes, television lamps and artificial eyelashes. The flamboyant old descriptions ("Astonishing Offer," "Biggest Bargain Ever," "The Best Cream Separator made in the World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping...
...acres of farmland, immensely valuable land in London (the south side of Piccadilly Circus, both sides of Regent Street, two theaters, three restaurants and the Carlton Hotel). But Elizabeth "owns" these properties only nominally. They are administered by Crown Commissioners for the benefit of Parliament, under a bargain struck with George III in 1760. In return, Parliament will vote Elizabeth the Civil List, under which her father received $1,148,000 a year. This may be increased for Elizabeth. Whether her husband will get a separate allowance is still to be decided. Elizabeth will also get the revenue from...