Word: hoop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...
Appointed to serve as Administrator (Chief Executive) of Liechtenstein, last week, was Herr Joseph Hoop. Herr Hoop is also an official of the Swiss Customs Service...
With due and appropriate pomp Herr Administrator Hoop was installed in his executive mansion at the Capital of Liechtenstein, Vaduz...
...revamped basketball team with Captain J. N. Barbee '28 at right guard will be seen tonight fighting for the University when the Crimson players meet the Middlebury College team at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. This will be the third contest of the season for the University hoop-men, the first two games being lost to Boston University and Brown University consecutively...
...picture you, I can just picture you ! Your attitude [TIME, May 30] toward the Illinois Women's Golf Club for women only gives you away completely. Do you think women fear male criticism whether they wear knickers or hoop-skirts to play golf ? Never believe it! No, but women are sick and tired of having to share golf clubs with rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots...