Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Line advertising. Nancy was a fine woman; in that I am in entire agreement with him. If she were alive today, probably the French Line would be proud to offer her a cabin de luxe on the lie de France and I would personally shepherd her from shop to shop in Paris. I believe that her son - who was a real man with a man-sized viewpoint - would be genuinely pleased, no matter how many pairs of stockings she bought. Neither his morals nor her own were on such precarious foundations that they would totter under the shock...
...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...
...intending to play intramural tennis should go to either Harry Cowles' Shop or to Leavitt and Peirce's and sign up in the blue books for the class tournaments. Entries will close Thursday and play will start immediately. Each class will have its own tournament and the high men will form a class team. A round robin schedule has been arranged for the three class teams. The members of the winning team of this league will receive their class numerals...
...bunion derbies seems highly improbable, and yet today in Cambridge something unique in the field of competitions, a phonograph listening marathon, is to be started. Promptly at 3 o'clock two Harvard students are to take their places in the windows of the Music Box, Cambridge's tiny shop on Holyoke Street, and there begin to listen without once stopping, to all and any one of the some 5000 odd records which the Music Box has in store...
Nelson Bell, proprietor of the shop expects the contest to last probably 36 hours and he has calculated that each man will drop the tone arm down on both sides of at least 1000 records...