Word: finchley
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...retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt this new policy were Manhattan's Weber & Heilbroner, and Finchley...
...Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra...
...Happening upon a rich uncle, he gets a job in the avuncular collar factory at Lycurgus, N. Y. His own neckwear improves. He sniffs wealth and position, smears oil on his hair and his manners. He puts afoot a promising campaign for the hand, body and prestige of Sondra Finchley, social princess of Lycurgus. While that plan is maturing, he cannot resist indulging in one of the factory girls, Roberta Alden. The physiological consequence is normal...