Word: errand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday, the stock-market crash of 1929. (Its founder, Henry R. Luce, decided to go ahead anyway after learning from the experts that "this slump may last as long as one year.") Luce wanted a magazine of business that would go beyond "the stale Get-Rich Maxims of onetime errand boys." He knew that businessmen got as "kittenish as a Victorian subdeb" when caught in the public eye but was not prepared for how hesitant corporations were to open their doors. In those days, stockholders were entitled to little information, the public to even less: businessmen had not progressed much...
Thirty-five smart people from New York City have flown down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...
needed for the survival of his industry. When he broke from GM and made his errand into the wilderness, he could be expected to return with the answer to a dealership's prayers...
...year-after-year involvement in the festival is only partially explicable by the town's lack of night life. The volunteers, from the mostly middle-aged women who do the men's makeup (their yellow T shirts read: WE KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT) to the lowliest errand boys, are plainly basking in the glory of Laguna's premiere event. Says Judy Stanton, 46, who for 13 years has rushed 50 miles from her nursing job in Downey to take part in the pageant: "I never get sick of it. There are new pictures every year...
...beat out all male rivals for the Lampoon's presidency, to become the first woman to achieve that position in the organization's 105-year history. The deciding factors, says a Lampoon staffer: "Consummate social skills and great legs." Says Lisa, who once worked as an errand girl for her father: "I expect my work here will be a lot more rewarding than carrying coffee around for the Muppets...