Word: brokaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York last week an equally expensive audience attended the Green Ball at the Waldorf, watched Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Donna Marina Torlonia, Mrs. James Russell Lowell, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and Clare Boothe Brokaw stalking about the stage in green evening dresses...
...directors, will be effected by an exchange of stock on a pro-rata basis. That it will be approved at a special stockholders' meeting June 20 is likely because it was originally recommended by the stockholders' protective committee formed last April under the chairmanship of George Brokaw Compton. Salaries of new officers will be limited to $10,000, bonuses will be banned unless approved by stockholders, and directors may be ousted at any time by stockholders' vote. Thus from the stage will pass famed United Aircraft & Transport Corp. which last year grossed $26,567,514 from operations...
...factory was Delman, Inc. Herman Delman has for a decade made high-price shoes for such notables as Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, Mrs. Harrison Williams, many a Brokaw, Auchincloss and Gould. He produces 2,500 pairs a week, makes shoes studded with precious stones, piped with gold and silver, painted with aluminum to shine in the dark. His prices begin at $14.75, sometimes reach $500. Last year when he gave up his retail store on Madison Avenue and confined himself to manufacturing, Saks Fifth Avenue signed a contract for an exclusive agency in Manhattan. Outside Manhattan, Delman shoes are sold...
Vanity Fair (for the so enlightening article on Staff Photographer Steichen written by Associate Editor Brokaw...
...succession of satirical sketches Authoress Brokaw parades a long line of gilded caricatures: Social Arbitress Mrs. Townley, her chief rival Mrs. Topping, climbing Mrs. Crumb, many another socialite host & parasite. All of them dislike one another, exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw...