Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hobbies. "If I find a strap is broken, I like to get out the tools that are used by shoemakers and harness makers, make a waxed end, and repair it. I like to do a little blacksmithing around what is left of our old shop [at Plymouth, Vt.], try my hand again with the carpenter's tools, go out and repair the fence where it is breaking down, and mend the latch on the kitchen door. Most people in this country do these things themselves and do not hire them done...
...Broadway sweat shop where jazz tunes are manufactured wholesale...
Like all U. S. voyagers in England, he enjoyed the quiet, the courtesy, the fine products of the English specialty shop. These, the result of intense retail competition, were typical of 19th Century British trade. It was pleasant to shop in them. But, to the mind of Mr. Selfridge, restless in retirement, they seemed expensive to operate, each with its separate overhead charges. The U. S. department store, while more raucous, was more economical and, too, more convenient for customers. It should be possible to merge the advantages of both the British and the U. S. systems of retailing...
...Nothing. Why? Because I was hungry and had no shoes. I had worn a pair of light boots to pieces on the building stones which had lacerated both my hands and the soles of my feet. Almost barefooted I went to an Italian's shop and bought myself a pair of shoes, hobnailed in mountaineer's style. I packed off, and on the next morning-Sunday, July 20-I took the train at Chavornay for Lausanne. "In Lausanne I lived carefully the first week on the money I had earned at Orbe. Then I was again hard...
Finally the piece will attract wise playgoers if but to hear Gershwin's rhythmic "Lost Barber Shop Chord" melodiously sung by a negro quartet...