Word: rechristenings
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...years, shopping on Chicago's State Street meant one thing: Marshall Field's, the hallmark department store that has stood at that address since the White Sox were the White Stockings. Come September, the store's new parent, Federated Department Stores, will rechristen it Macy's, and loyal Marshall Field's customers are both angry and genuinely sad. "For some chain to come into Chicago and think we're New York is totally misguided," says June Cuci, 48, who has been shopping at Field's since her childhood. Even film critic Roger Ebert lamented the loss. "I thought...
HALF.COM, ORE. In 2000 the hamlet of Halfway got cash and computers to rechristen itself for one year after this website, which later was sold to eBay for a mint...
...said the committee wished to rechristen itself the “Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,” and implement slight changes to the concentration itself, including adding a new junior-level course on theories of sexuality...
...lame duck. Not the most inspired. Let's encourage the powers-that-be to look a little harder. Here's a possibility: The Inn at Harvard will soon be owned by our little branch of the University and would make an ideal location. We could simply rechristen it Inn House. Think how popular it would be...unless it actually wasn't popular, being so close to the Union and all, and was rerechristened Out House. That would be unfortunate. Alternatively, Harvard could takeover the apartment building across from 'Noch's. It already sports a dining hall in its basement with...
...City of New Orleans Goodman described. (He wrote the song in 1970, just before Amtrak took over the line with plans to rename that route the Panama Limited after the old Pullman train. Goodman's popular lament for the train with the "disappearin'-railroad blues" persuaded Amtrak to rechristen it the City of New Orleans.) And our sleek new equipment was a far cry from the tattered luxury of its aging 1940s cars...