Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great was the applause when Mrs. Eva Hunt Dockery, of Boise, Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years...
...Thomas O. Marvin, wife of the U. S. Tariff Commissioner, told last week how, upon entering a Boston antique shop, she found $3,000 worth of bric-a-brac which had been stolen early in June from the Marvin summer home near Portsmouth...
...conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...
This and a thousand other comments were pored over the next morning by Herr Goldarbeiter, ethereal Lisl's father, in his leather goods & luggage shop where Lisl used to be cashier and salesgirl. Proudly he told the neighbors again how Lisl had been warned not to enter the contest by no less a personage than the Bishop of Galveston (TIME, April 15) and how Lisl, though profoundly impressed by the cleric's warning, had decided to enter anyhow...
...black cat prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...