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...sellers. Some of the output is taken by the Great Atlantic & Pacific stores, some by Independent Grocers' Association. He controls the Zion Bank (capital: $50,000) whose rival is First State Bank, largely held by officials of Marshall Field & Co. who also own Zion City's big lace factory. A publishing plant and a department store also loom large in Voliva-land...
...boys' choir of the Chapel Royal sang hymns. The royal family, present with the notable exception of Edward of Wales, bowed their heads in prayer, while the baby princess, oblivious of the fact that she was wearing her great-great-grandmother's clothes?the ivory satin and lace christening dress of Queen-Empress Victoria?continued to gurgle. When the christening of Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York was completed, the entire party adjourned to drink tea, nibble slices of a 90-lb. christening cake...
...onetime Senator from Colorado and three other potent financiers (Murry, Solomon R. and William); after a short illness, of heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel. Early he went to Pueblo, dinky distributing town of the southern Colorado Rockies, to plunge the first Guggenheim money into copper. Eventually...
Jean Charles Worth-Square velvet fans and leg o' mutton topped satin gloves. Black ermine muffs. Fur hems on jersey skirts. Evening dresses of gold lace...
Paul Poiret, always theatrical, startled fashion scouts with high Elizabethan ruffs on formal afternoon dresses, with lame skirts over lace trousers, an evening sensation...