Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completing the winter social season, the Lowell House Winter Dance will be held Friday, February 28 with Joe Haymes and his orchestra furnishing the music. Lasting from 10 until 3 o'clock, the dancing will be preceded by a dinner starting at 7.30 o'clock in the main dining room...
Every move which tends to integrate the isolated residents of the Yard with the main body of the college should be supported and encouraged. Recently the bars to advanced courses were let down to entice qualified freshmen. The new meal plan ties up as action along the same general line. Together these changes should secure greater contact and make the plunge from the atmosphere and scholastic requirements of the Yard to that of House life less sudden...
...Francisco's St. Francis Hotel is Mrs. Mary Ann Magnin, the spry little 87-year-old founder of I. Magnin & Co., West Coast smartshop chain. Her daily routine includes a drive down the "Peninsula" in her Packard limousine, lunch at a Burlingame restaurant, a brief visit at the main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous cake.* This April Matriarch...
Settling down to his main argument, Mayor Wilson expounded the Wilson Plan. Major knot in the P. R. T. tangle is the existence of what are known as "underlying companies." A considerable portion of the trackage over which the P. R. T. runs its cars is not owned by P. R. T., but by some 20 companies to which the original franchises were granted many years ago. Stock in these companies is owned by the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families. For the privilege of using these rights-of-way, P. R. T. pays annual leases which amount...
Magnin's is the swankest women's specialty-shop chain in the U. S. Besides the main store in San Francisco, it has shops in Seattle and in such California cities as Los Angeles, Pasadena, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, Oakland, Del Monte, Coronado. In a few stores there are collegegirl departments, similar to the debutante departments in big Manhattan specialty shops like Bonwit Teller's and Saks Fifth Avenue. In these Magnin's sells dresses as low as $22.75. But prices in general are near the top. Highest price ever paid for Magnin's ready...