Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then she called the Visa company to see if I was a deadbeat. Then she checked the catalog to see if my card had been revoked. Lastly, she filled out the bill and asked me to add my address and phone number to the bottom of the register in order to make sure I really wasn't a deadbeat and to prevent me from absconding with the engine block that served as my claim check...
...shopping in the comfort of my own home. Not from the Home Shopping Club, as a matter of protest, but from catalogs. The Star Market catalog is particularly good. It lets me do all my grocery shopping over the phone. Most of the food is rotten by the time it gets to my house, but they have a great deal on Windex...
...favorite catalog to date, though, is the one I got from the Norwood Trophy and Engraving Company. It arrived just in time, as I was almost out of trophies and things to engrave when the catalog showed up at my mailbox...
...person, that one cannot be "too rich or too thin" -- are still imagined, especially by elderly Americans, to be a modern version of Tristan and Isolde. Hence Sotheby's spent a bundle before the sale hyping the jewels and went into a second printing with a $50 catalog that dilated, as though describing the iconography of a Rubens, on such events as the death of the future Duchess's dog Slipper...
...music by Broadway's old masters -- Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter -- discovered in 80 boxes in a Secaucus, N.J., warehouse. Now, after five years of archaeology, Historian Robert Kimball has prepared a 178-page inventory of some of the contents for the first volume of the Catalog of the American Musical, to be published in September by the National Institute for Music Theater (NIMT). "We have reclaimed a vital part of our musical heritage," Kimball boasts. "These works will now be heard in their original form...