Word: salesgirl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Navy duty in the Atlantic and the Pacific during World War II, Muskie returned to practice law in Waterville. In 1948 he married Jane Gray, a bookkeeper, salesgirl and occasional model in a local fashion shop. Attracted by the New Deal, Muskie had joined the Maine Democratic Party and successfully run for the state legislature in 1946. Democrats were such a novelty that he soon became the Democratic house floor leader. In 1954 he was elected Governor, partly because thousands of down-Easters were simply looking for an alternative to granitic Republicanism...
...sellers get a 20% cut of the retail price and, though most of them work only a few days before drifting on, a few have found longer-lasting job satisfaction. Says one 16-year-old salesgirl in Dallas: "Flowers soothe the savage redneck." Adds John Suggs, who oversees the group's Little Rock operation: "This kind of work is fun, and flowers have a spiritual quality. They make people smile...
...thriller, but there is no real suspense. In fact, the book is like the paperback Lise carries around with her, which she describes as "a whydunnit in q-sharp major." The reader knows that Lise is crazy from the moment she stalks out of a shop because the salesgirl has told her the preposterous garment she wants is "stain-resistant." The fact that she will be stabbed to death is announced portentously on page...
That was refreshing. But back on Mt. Auburn Street, Serendipity is having a sale on dresses, gifts, and jewelry. Pendants are all half-off, but the salesgirl reports with a sigh, "The year of the pendant is over." Has it been a year already? Well, console your-self with a pink feather duster-also half-off and the year of the feather duster has just begun...
Turning up Holyoke Street: the Andover Shop (men's clothing) is starting its sale next week. They have a very pretty salesgirl and a lot of wide-wale corduroy pants. Next door at Bobbi Baker (outfitters of Channel 4 movie reviewer Pat Collins), we asked the manager to have one of the salesgirls put on some of their sales items for a picture. "My God," she shrieked, "I've got so much on sale-she'd fall right through the floor. I'm a regular Filene's Basement," to name another good place for bargains, if you feel like traveling...