Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Coast to Coast ordered a relaxation of snide sales approaches, began to direct their advertising plumb at plebeians. Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade. Phonograph shops discovered a new kind of customer: not young swing collectors, not symphony lovers, but plain people asking for Old Black Joe and My Old Kentucky Home...
...Whitney said she would sell all her show horses except her white stallion Bon Nuit, concentrate on racing...
First test of this scheme was 2,958 shares of Bon Ami Co. B stock, an inactive issue. Last week, just 103 minutes trading time after the first ticker-tape notice flashed in U.S. brokerage offices, the last share was sold. To Stott, this was full proof that the Big Board can handle almost any stock-selling job. To the seller, it meant a big saving in commissions. Off-the-board commissions would have been around $6,000; commissions under the special offerings plan were $3,163-only 2.86% of the $110,555 deal. Thus, in effect, Mr. Stott...
...form existing only for a short period of time. A high aesthetic standard, a delight in the whole range of the theatre, snap judgment, and a scholarly background--these are the requisites for the drama critic. No wonder that the critic retreats into individualistic displays of bon mots and wit in his reviews...
...TMWCTD is now so much the possession of Monty Woolley that even its authors' right to a share in it seems questionable. Possessor of the most Edwardian visage of his era, bon vivant, trust-funder, darling of Manhattan's cafe society, onetime Yale English instructor, 53-year-old Actor Woolley plays Sheridan Whiteside with such vast authority and competence that it is difficult to imagine anyone else attempting it. As one of his intimates has remarked: "At last the old party has got the role he's been rehearsing for all his life...