Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wares, including $500,000 worth of furs, $350,000 worth of dresses (three Charles James models were priced at $2,000 each), and $3,500,000 Neiman-Marcus' sales soared. Many of the guests had brought lavishly even before the show, just to be sure they had the proper things to wear on opening night...
...14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century). Now, in an almost equally engaging yarn, Henry Treece reaches back to the time (ist century) when the Romans had just conquered Britain-an era when proper Britons worshipped the sun and painted blue marks on their foreheads to show their rank...
...filing in Manhattan of an inventory of the will left by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes when he died in 1948 revealed a couple of interesting facts: a gross estate of $1,234,516, and Hughes's high respect for government and municipal bonds as a safe and proper investment. They accounted for $1,101,748 of his estate, while only $39,078 was in private corporation stock-a lone investment in Julius Garfinckel & Co., Washington specialty store...
...houses. Mrs. Jessel herself is the proprietor of 13 cabins where patients who need more than one treatment can put up for $35 a month. District doctors acknowledge that some patients may receive "psychological benefit"; beyond that they can only fume at the danger that ill people who need proper medical treatment may be persuaded, by a visit to Susie's, that they do not need...
...safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted station, even when she is gulping an ice cream cone, getting her hair cut or whamming a cop over the head with a guitar in a nightclub dustup. Yet to scenes where she is playing the princess proper, she brings a wistfulness that seems completely unposed. She can be infinitely appealing with her hair snarled and her dress dripping wet. In the film's final moments, she becomes a lonely little figure of great pathos and dignity...