Word: salesgirl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such personalized service grew a selling system rarely found in U.S. retailing. At Bergdorf's, a big customer does not wander haphazardly from one salesgirl to the next: she is accompanied everywhere in the store by a "vendeuse" who knows and has memorized her tastes. Bergdorf's vendeuses are sometimes as well known as their customers (on Bergdorf's payroll now: Mrs. Geoffrey Gates, the ex-Mrs. Harry Hopkins, Author Kay -Eisenhower Was My Boss-Summers-by) and sometimes too hoity-toity even for Bergdorf's. When the Grand Duchess
...committee announced a list of the most amiable Parisians, as chosen in a poll. Among the winners: a cab driver, a policeman, a salesgirl, a dress model and smiling President Vincent Auriol himself. Perhaps the most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche...
...Usually, we have very little card business on Valentine's Day," remarked one salesgirl ruefully, "but this year everyone seems to be in a rush to insult people...
...than it was a month ago. The story was much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through rising prices to buy what it wanted as a berry picker reaches into a nettle patch. "Sure, they're buyin'," said a Boston salesgirl, "but they're lookin' and pawin' and hemmin' and hawin' before they...
Slicker. In Far Rockaway, N.Y., Arthur Brown, arrested in a chain store 'after the salesgirl he had spoken to ran screaming for help, finally succeeded in convincing police that 1) he was a porter employed by the company and 2) he had told the girl he wanted to slick up, not stick up, the store...