Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Semi-fabulous white whale whose demoniac history was recorded by Herman Melville (1819-91). Last week. Author Melville's home, viewing Mt. Greylock in the Berkshire Mountains near Pittsfield, Mass., was reported to be for sale...
...presence was reported in Princeton. Denied access to the campus he was receiving young men at his lodging in the town. Realizing that among the first to visit Mr. Buchman would most likely be the leaders of the campus religious organization, the Philadelphian Society, the students attended a mass meeting and voted, 394 to 18, that President Hibben appoint a committee to investigate the Philadelphian Society for "undesirable Buchmanism." There was also a vote of 253 to 85 to the effect that "undesirable Buchmanism" was actually in vogue with the Philadelphian Society. Ironically, the mass meeting had been called...
...readers are the little educated, barely literate mass-chiefly women-"who yearn for the better things in life"; and the "better things" that he gives them examples of are physical well being and stories of love and sin. The office girl on the street car, nuzzling into his current magazines sees photographs of Bernarr Macfadden, her physical pastor, wearing only a skimpy breechclout, his chest hairless. He is illustrating "How I keep fit at Fifty-Eight." Yet pictures of girls predominate in the periodicals. A favorite female pose is the sway-back with the mons veneris thrown forward. An advertisement...
Marshall Field had been born on a New England farm himself-at Conway, Mass. Restless, he had gone to raw Chicago and had been hired to work for the general mercantile firm of Cooley, Farwell & Co., which was doing a big wholesale business with the towns of the prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil...
...that one of the Allies has sold bonds publicly in Germany. Specialty Shops tradesmen of Portland, Ore., individualists catering to individualistic customers, have adopted a program of enlightened co-operation to offset the competition of department stores. Department stores are inherently consolidations of specialty shops, but, depending upon mass sales, they tend to stock only standardized products and to slight the buyer who has personal whims. Portland shopkeepers, who make a point of such individual service and thus attain the fascination of the English and French shops, have grouped as the Greater Portland Association to advertise their peculiar advantages...