Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found him ridiculous. A typical newspaper headline cried: "Leaders Laugh at Poor Dewey." His boom died. He seldom appeared on front pages until his death. His wood and plaster triumphal arch rotted, was not replaced by marble as originally planned. Today, his Washington house is a dressmaking shop...
...friends whom lonely Lawyer Harris called to him were Sylvester Schiele, coal; Gustavus Loehr, mining; Harry Ruggles, printing. They sat long and late comparing notes, exchanging experiences. Then they invited 15 or 20 men, each from a different profession to minimize "shop talk," broaden the conversation and recruit "a further idea or a dynamic force...
...mosquito screens for the Business School; 12,000 napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right and be right...
...Dunster House Book Shop will take up permanent quarters at 20 South St. after a number of weeks, when alterations have been completed. Forced out of its old home at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets intending to return to the new building which was to be erected by the Manter Hall School...
This building, which was built sometime between 1790 and 1800 will be admirably suited for the book shop which has furnished Harvard students with rare editions and special volumes, as well as a quiet place to read for the past eight years. It has two rooms on each of its three floors and there are fire places in four of them. The moving will be done gradually and should be completed by July...