Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always he cringed from surgery. He died of infection following an operation for gangrenous appendicitis...
...Gimbel Bros. Inc.: Lee Adam Gimbel, 32, as Vice President; to become a trader on the New York Stock Exchange; at a cost, for his seat...
...small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision (no health-destroying chemicals), its radio programs (Gimbel Bros. Station WGBS...
Showman Ringling, Educator Flexner, Novelist Croy, Banker Warburg, Gasman Insull, the crew of the Rofa, arrived, variously by the Berengaria, Paris, Santa Louisa, Deutschland, Tuscarora, Majestic, while Poloist Milburn, Actress Larrimore, Democrat Silzer, Balloonists Eimermacher, Zech, Golfarchitect Emmett, Producer Shubert, Shopkeepers Gimbel, Filene, Singer Hempel, sailed, variously, by the Majestic, Deutschland, Bermuda...
Born. To Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, and Bernard F. Gimbel, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. (famed Manhattan, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh department stores); twin sons...