Word: shops
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After graduating from Kansas City's Westport High School in 1932, the girl clerked in the Kansas City Junior League Thrift Shop, later worked as a salesgirl and a model in Harzfeld's specialty shop. In 1938 she changed her name to Ann Eden and went to New York in search of fame. She was a Powers model. ("An all-round, wholesome-looking girl," recalls John Robert Powers. "We don't get calls for them like that any more. Nowadays they want a cadaverous look...
...leading quail hunters. One gaudy night, while Evelyn's mother was conveniently out of town. White blackly enticed the girl-or so she later testified -to a certain address on West 24th Street, which was entered through a secret door at the rear of a toy shop;. There, she said, he showed her into a room swathed in sound-stifling draperies from ceiling to floor, and containing a canopied bed with mirrors set in the top and sides. He offered her champagne. It tasted bitter. "When I became conscious again," she said later, "I didn't have...
...hand a leather belt. As the clock struck noon, I would be approached by a woman . . . holding an orange in her hand . . . [She] would ask me in English where I had bought the belt; and I was to reply that I had bought it in an ironmonger's shop in Paris. Then I was to ask where I could buy an orange like hers, and she was to say that I could have hers for an English penny...
Unfair Advantage. In London, after being fined ?5 ($14) for stealing from a self-service store, Mrs. May Hampton, 43, complained indignantly in court: "The public should be protected from this kind of shop; you can go in and steal anything and no one is the wiser...
...think the reason for any haircut raise can be traced right back to the agreement between General Motors and Reuther (of the United Auto Workers)." Authony Ferranti of the Harvard Barber Shop, stated." First steel went up, then cars, and finally it fitered down to the barbershops...