Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven hundred strong they marched through the Capital City of Kabul to the Great Bazaar. There, by the generosity of alert, up-to-date King Amanullah of Afghanistan, they were assisted into pants, buttoned into shirts, tied with cravats and hustled into coats. All these garments, cut after modes observed by King Amanullah on his recent tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23 to June 4), had been made by Afghan needlemen from native approximations to suitings and shirtings. Remained only the titanic project of clipping, shaving...
...depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind of thing. So she fell miserably in love with her husband, although all he had asked, and still asked, of her was that she bear him companionship-and an heir. This...
...bright bazaar, the New York Electrical & Industrial Exposition which began last week, showed that of the 25,000 practical applications of electricity the ones most vigorously exploited are those most useful to housekeepers. They constitute two large groups dependent upon electricity's change into 1) power and 2) heat...
...everything from Greek philosophy to Tennessee evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
...battle between the newspaper and the weekly or monthly magazine, the magazine has already suffered defeat. The magazine of today is merely an agreeable survivor of the past. . . . Besides, more and more advertisable things are ever being created for the daily newspaper, metamorphosing it into a sort of magic bazaar filled with purchasable wonders...