Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opera stars with all their trappings went last week from San Francisco to Los Angeles, set up shop there for a ten-day season. Tosca was the first opera with tall, blonde Maria Jeritza (Austrian Baroness von Popper) as the heckled heroine. Of a similar performance given a week earlier in San Francisco, Critic Pitts Sanborn of the New York Telegram wrote...
...arguments were not entirely illogical. Ganna Walska said that she was a nonresident citizen; she pointed out that she was the owner of a residence, a beauty shop and a theatre in Paris and that her principal activities were carried out in that capital. Her entity was an individual one, not to be confused with that of her husband who could if he wished stay at home throughout the year. He was a resident but she was not. Since nonresidents do not pay customs duties, she would pay no such...
...only scar I bear,' he said, 'is on my foot. I could show to you now if I were to take off my shoe. I got it by stepping on a red-hot iron chip in my bare feet at my father's blacksmith shop...
...Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Calcutta, Berlin and hundreds of other cities the sign Bat'a is displayed above a store which is the acme of modernity. Indeed a pilgrim to the Holy City will find that Bat'a's shoe shop in Jerusalem has "done" its windows in smart "modernistic" squares and angles...
...lines opened last week. To land there are the Manhattan-bound mail planes from Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Montreal. The port has two 700-ft. runways each a half mile long, a postoffice building, radio station, meteorological station besides the usual hangars, administration buildings and machine shop. Eventually an elevated highway without crossings will be constructed towards New York Harbor so that plane mail can be rushed into the city in 33 minutes. The lag now is nearly an hour...