Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspection in the Bath. In Paris, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), trim Hattie was a reigning queen. At the ateliers of the top designers, her slightest show of interest made heady columns of news in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. (In later years she learned to gush at the models that bored her, and to look bored at those she intended to promote.) Her suite at the Ritz was invariably a bedlam, with delivery boys, salesmen and hatboxes filling up the living room; Hattie herself sometimes held forth in the bathtub, shrewdly appraising the hats and accessories that were...
Reginald, conceded that Douglas "had no personal knowledge as to the true facts." Said aggrieved Sir Reginald: "This chap goes around and collects bazaar gossip and puts it in his books as the truth...
...Corp., cried that "manufacturers have contrived to put themselves in an impregnable position, while the dealer is at their mercy." Democratic Senator A. S. (Mike) Monroney, who has spent a year studying auto-marketing practices, added his bit: "Ethical standards are deteriorating to the business morality of an Oriental bazaar. If conditions do not change, the traditional pattern of the franchised dealer will disappear. In its place you will find a supermarket operation...
...Worker always liked to accommodate its friends. Once a woman representing a Communist front came in to demand a front-page story on a money-raising women's bazaar-and with a banner headline, too. In his simple bourgeois way, Managing Editor Glaser scoffed: "You can't have an eight-column line on a bazaar." But, after Eisler intervened, that was just how the story...
...cultural short circuits when East plugs in on West, e.g., a professor bent on art criticism ("His use of green for trees is especially remarkable"). Best of all, everyday life bustles through the pages of Amrita with all the clatter, chatter and haggling delight of an Eastern bazaar...