Word: fortnum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because many Londoners turned up the gas for heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...
...ballet-altogether ten musical shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...
...swank, expensive Fortnum & Mason's can be found a few tins of chicken breast, stews and curries, costly bottled fruits...
...Fortnum's lush vegetable department has fresh asparagus at $2.10 a bunch, fresh peaches at $1.50 a peach, strawberries at two guineas...