Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to better ensure that apparel bearing the Harvard name is produced under quality working conditions, the University will affiliate itself with the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a new organization planning to monitor clothing factories around the world, a University official said yesterday...
...Carre, the most artful chronicler of fictionalized cold war espionage (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), takes a less sanguine view of the outlaw capitalism that only intensified after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the old world order. Single & Single (Scribner; 347 pages; $26), his 17th novel, provides a fascinating journey through the new landscape of corruption...
Parents with big purses may want to stay--or dine at least once--at the Plaza, well known to the younger set as the residence of Kay Thompson's mischievous Eloise, whose portrait (by Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight) overlooks the hotel's Palm Court. There, modern-day urchins can order kid-friendly delectables like Home Alone Sundaes and s'mores...
...have one." Said a buyer from Miami, giggling: "Like you certainly do!" While the crowd burst out laughing, someone in the back whispered, "Hey, isn't she the one that used to go with Jerry Seinfeld?" The answer, of course, is yes, but everyone was too busy filling out order forms to respond...
...hours north of Yosemite is Virginia City, Nev., where Samuel Clemens adopted his nom de plume. The conventional wisdom is that "Mark Twain" comes from the riverman's term for water two fathoms deep. Joe Curtis, owner of Mark Twain's Bookstore, offers an alternative theory. Clemens used to order his whiskey two shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections of that time...