Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitor has proudly claimed her to be the most satisfying artist on the French opera stage. Proudest of all, according to friends, has been her husband, Dickson Greene, son of Grant Dickson Greene, Syracuse foundryman. While she sang in Paris, he worked there as representative of Harper's Bazaar. With Dr. and Mrs. Stiles he was present in Chicago last week to applaud...
...rooms of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Clive Street, Calcutta, meet the principal India jute associations. Last week the Calcutta jute men might well have discussed something else besides how much jute was arriving from the north, what price it was fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant...
...Hurry, Master!" cried a secretary. "The Fish Bazaar is on fire...
Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning...
...parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia (TIME, Jan. 17, et seq.) they were obliged to accept and bring home "for Baby Betty" no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone, or address the Girl Guides (of which she is one) without having pressed upon her-"for Baby Betty, the darling!"-everything from four-leaf clovers offered by grubby children to the historic lace diaper presented by a beaming Irish woman with a shawl over her head. An efficient...