Word: garments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the buyers in department stores, in grocery stores? 'Buy one case of my product and you get one free. You buy my blue jeans and I'll remember you at Christmastime.' Is this not payola? Have there not been accusations of this sort in the garment industry, in any number of international unions? Payola in one form or another is a part of American business ... I say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone...
...creation of New York's "Little Flower" La Guardia, is filled with warmth, schmalz and a lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama...
...just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and semantic differences; or you'll remind each other that you have no identities yet, and speculate about Our Generation. Pull off each garment covering your souls, but don't worry, you can't escape the cliche. It's Saturday night, gentlemen, and I'm staying home to study...
...best friends was blonde Janice Drake, 33, onetime showgirl, Miss New Jersey in 1944, and wife of TV Comic Allen Drake. Like Augie, Jan had a talent for encountering people just before curtain time. She was questioned closely about Anastasia's death, and Nat Nelson, a playboy garment distributor, was found murdered in his bachelor apartment the morning after a date with...
FOUNDATION GARMENTS. "As is well known, the manufacturer's terminology frequently has overtones of sexual innuendo. The 'ectoplasm' technique by which the garment is shown alone in motion probably is the least offensive demonstration method. The employment of an arrow, a dotted line or a pointer to show specific features is far preferable to the human hand...