Word: shopgirls
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...topnotch independent clothing manufacturer whose buyers have also attended the Paris openings follows the same routine, except that he usually makes thousands of copies and sells to smaller retail stores. He it is who is responsible for the fact, that, within 30 days of the original showings, every shopgirl in the land is wearing a cheap imitation of what is the best Paris style...
...wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft is "Don't be an airedale...
...husband, when we saw those men on the streets of Paris . . ." Nor, perhaps, can one blame the old lady, for the complicated framework of "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" is such that she could hardly be expected to follow the intricate love problems of Steffi, a Viennese shopgirl, who is almost cast into the willing arms of the almost rich tenor butcher only to be rescued for her unemployed musician by the discovery that there was a mistake in the numbers of the lottery tickets, which makes the course of true love lead to a proper ending on rails...
...know, has ever been made of the percent of plays in which a man who should do better falls in with a shop girl. The fraction, however, must be a large one. Also large is the percent of actresses who succeed in making the little shopgirl completely artificial. Miss Sheridan, however, with such a part in "Cynara," has achieved the most poignant kind of realism, a success that reflects great credit not only to herself but also to the writing of the play...
...young man partly blind meets a shopgirl on one of his walks, falls in love with her though he cannot see her face. But she is unable to stand up before his formidable Grandmamma, and their strange idyll is ephemeral...