Word: emporiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these two comedy-writing firms has been, more amazing still is the fact that, in addition to serving as a full-time partner in each, George S. (for nothing) Kaufman has also set up in the play business with at least 22 other people, once conducting a thriving emporium with the late Ring Lardner, a going concern with Morrie Ryskind, four swanky shops with Edna Ferber, two small hamburger stands with Alexander Woollcott, a pushcart with Howard Dietz, and a sidewalk trade out of a suitcase with Herman J. Mankiewicz...
...Earl Sande hung up his tack, 17-year-old Johnny Oros did not grow up on horseback, like most jockeys. Until four years ago the nearest he came to a horse was the shanks' mare on which he used to deliver groceries for his father's little emporium in Aurora, Ill. When Father Oros decided to trade his grocery store for a stable of third-rate thoroughbreds, Johnny learned to ride a horse...
...option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...
...familiar sight to generations of students, Max Keezer's second-hand shop on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Plympton street is now no more. After 37 years of continuos occupancy near Harvard Square Keezer has been forced by high rents and unprosporous times to move his emporium about three blocks down the avenue towards Central Square on the other side of the (trolley) tracks...
This seeming paradox existed due to the fact, that Abraham Pierson was a student from the Charles River Emporium.... Since at the time of the founding of the College there was no official seal, it was thought appropriate to place the arms of the former prexy's alma mater in a position which cried out for some specimen of the heraldic...