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Word: shopping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroic performances of Ruth and Alexander in the struggle of two years ago between the same clubs are remembered and the chances of duplication discussed. Will Comba and Pennock be able to play, and will Yankee slugging break through Cardinal pitching? Such are the questions that will animate barber shop debate, for the next few days and cause thousands of fans to storm the gates, ruin their hats and larynxes and regain their youth in a grand orgy of sport mania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HICKORY CROWN | 10/4/1928 | See Source »

Correspondents reported last week only one Roman shopkeeper who continues to pay a three word tax on the name of his hairdressing shop: "The Ladies' Toilette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pro yesso del Fascismo | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...performance of his art. The last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws his hands around more wildly than he does in an off-stage ring but there are moments when he does not pull his punches. After his quiet, embarrassed performance in drawing-room or barber-shop episodes, it is a relief to see Jack Dempsey forget his good manners and exhibit gloves and socks. At the end of the fight, he embraces the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Matchmakers. A sad-faced Swede named Johan Edvard Lundstrom had erected a match factory at his native Jonkoping ir. 1845. Starting with a small shop, he and Brother Carl Frans swiftly widened their market. In 1850 Brother Carl Frans visited England, talked business with Matchmakers Bryant & May. Thus began Sweden's export of matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tandsticksaktiebolaget | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

GRACE HAYS singing: I MUST HAVE THAT MAN-I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE. We can but quote statistics: Release date: next Friday (Oct, 5). We expect to sell: about 500. We will have in our shop and that's all we can get at the time: 100. Orders for the record on our books up to yesterday morning: 60. In the store at present: One lonely sample which is liable to break anytime. Therefore SWEET ELLA MAY - THERE'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU. Jacques Renard did it. We didn't believe it possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

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