Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Bill Gordon (William Powell) is a master of enciphering and deciphering codes, conceals the fact from his superiors because he hankers for action at the front. He makes the mistake of telling this to Joel (Rosalind Russell), a girl whom he meets at a charity bazaar and who falls shamelessly in love with him. When she tells her uncle, the Assistant Secretary of War, about his talents, Gordon is ordered to a desk in the decoding room. Disgruntled but still as suave as ever, Gordon decodes intercepted German wirelesses which show a U. S. transport in danger, comes...
Buyers who visit Manhattan are no longer hayseeds. Many are college graduates, nearly all read Vogue or Harper's Bazaar, keep up with Paris fashions. Their power over the trade is tremendous. They buy a good slice of the 53,000,000 dozen pairs of socks and stockings sold in the U. S. every six months. They account for perhaps 75% of all high-class women's clothes sold each season. Typical routine of a dress, hat and lingerie buyer from a department store in Atlanta...
...Duchess of York purchased at a charity bazaar a fluffy woolen scarf knitted by the Duke of York...
...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Bazaar came into the stretch a length ahead of the field in the Saranac Handicap. With a ghostlike rush, Jockey Wayne Wright brought Kievex up on the outside of the track, beat Bazaar to the wire by a head. Three days later, Colonel Bradley was consoled when Boxthorn won the Saratoga Special...
...from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field and making it necessary...