Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Square a scattered crowd of Dowager Ladies, shop clerks and students waved their hats and handkerchiefs, shouted, "Speach." The nominee would not speak. The cars moved on. Into the line of march darted a small car bearing across its windshield "Al Smith." Loud were the cheers, and long...
...Common Sin, variously known as Bobo's Bargain, Bad Debts and Paid Off, came out of the shop, stumbled through a quadrangle of illicit love, polished off a polite off-stage murder, ended sweetly. Its author, Willard Mack, also wrote the current and noisy Gang...
Very few health officers have that ability to improve conditions. They do the established, approved things; they watch water supplies, garbage disposals, food shop sanitation; they quarantine infected persons; they keep vital and epidemological statistics. They are mainly bureaucrats, jobholders. They must be constantly educated in their public health profession; they must be constantly egged to improve the health of their jurisdictions; they must be constantly pestered to teach their people selfhelp. And once a year they get those urgings in a massive dose...
...held at the instigation of Mr. & Mrs. Carlton Palmer of Brooklyn, who donated prizes of $500 and $200. Mr. Palmer is president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, manufacturing chemists, famed for toothpaste, milk of magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver sheen exemplify I'art moderne, where expensive, fragrant distillations jet publicly before the eyes of purchasers, many of whom are fascinating, many merely ambitious. Mrs. Palmer has presided over the largest body of sensibly perfumed young women in the land; she was, last year, national president...
...done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored bar for Dr. Fenton Taylor of Manhattan. He has painted portraits of Actor Alfred Lunt, sturdy Basque sailors, a Greek priest...