Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caliban of the Pawn Shop", a one act comedy by W.W. Howells '30, of the drama group in English A, has been accepted for the stage by the dramatic committee of Boston Settlement Houses. The play will be produced some time in the near future...
William Whiteley, son of a country grain dealer, came to London and opened a draper's shop while the U.S. Civil War raged. He put his trust in window displays, at a time when storekeepers had to decoy customers into their murky shops. Victorians were dazzled, and he became the "Universal Provider." When shot to death* in 1907, he had a business worth $4,500,000. This, since the War, has supported the model garden village of Burhill, near Walton on the Thames, where several hundred aged men and women workers, indigents, prolong a lean existence in 300 cottages...
...might have been worthy of the excellent title, but the author of this novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif to his ranch, on the theory that two can starve as cheap...
...drawings are posted in Cowles' Tennis Shop. None of the eight men on the first net team are entered in the tournament, and consequently, there are no seeded players. The majority of the 60 men who reported for tennis are entered in the tournament...
...town they've been--to dance, to lunch, to shop, to see a show...