Word: shrinkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 11, "Full Dress." I take angry issue with your generalities regarding New York divorces, e. g., "there are always pajamas" and "the woman is always blonde" and "New York wives shrink from the hoary tale." I am a practicing attorney in the city of New York and my experience includes several divorces, but never has Madam X of the story been a blonde, never has she worn pajamas, never has a wife shrunk from the hoary tale...
Occasionally the pajamas are green instead of pink, but there are always pajamas and the woman is always blonde. Discontented New York wives shrink from the hoary tale, but the state law which permits divorce only on grounds of adultery leaves them no alternative. Chief sufferers are referees in divorce proceedings, forced to hear over & over the same old story of raid, surprised husband, pajama-clad blonde. Last week in Manhattan a referee rebelled. His victim was a woman famed in the U. S. and Europe for her different parties, indifferent singing...
...fanatically intolerant state of mind in which the nation went to war. The testimony of "Taps" shows once more that the only time for an individual to make a rational decision about war-resistance is in the months of peace. It is a tragic human failing which makes men shrink from decision until they are no longer masters of their own powers of judgment...
...advertisement cost Macy's $3,000; about $1,000 for the space, $2,000 for the fabric and insertion. Results, according to Macy's, were phenomenal. One skeptical customer laundered the swatch overnight, convinced himself it would not shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels sold by the thousand. The Macy advertisement was the first of its kind in Manhattan, the first anywhere in rotogravure. The idea was first introduced into newspaper advertising last spring in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last...
...which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such a plot as Trinity's old churchyard is based on the fact that...