Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saul Singer at 15 was proprietor of a hardware store in Sebastopol. At 17 he was earning $4 a week in a Manhattan sweatshop. He became in due course president of the $15,000,000 Garment Centre Capital buildings, president of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association. At 47 he has a rambling colonial house of 25 rooms and a large forested estate on Long Island where he employs two chauffeurs and three gardeners, owns saddle horses, a station wagon and two limousines...
...Back from the club in an open barouche rode the royal brothers through lines of cheering Bermudians, solemnly shook hands with 650 chosen people. So thrilled was one Bermuda lady at the prospect of meeting royalty that she forgot to put on a skirt...
Traveling under the name of "Mrs. Grant," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was discovered at Honolulu, where she purchased a Hula skirt and a book of instructions in Hula-Hulaing. Later she took ship for India. Said she: "I want to get close to the women of the East...
...dropped sharply on the Exchange on rumors that it too was involved, but the company announced it had less than $100,000 in the bank. The City of New York sought in vain to release a $1,500,000 deposit. Another big depositor was Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers. The bank has around 400,000 depositors, 23,000 shareholders. Last week the State was busy investigating reports that the bank had sold stock to depositors at $198 a share, promised repurchase in the event of a decline, an illegal banking...
...Gibson Girl herself. Occasionally in the drawings which made Life the most popular humorous weekly in the country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl would exhibit fear of mice, embarrassment at the shortness of her bathing skirt, or a tendency to buy extravagant dresses. But for the most part the Gibson Girl remained the goddess of a sentimental generation, admirable always. It was through the strange minor characters that surrounded her that Artist Gibson was "exceedingly facetious." The Gibson Girl had a formidable mother who was forever trying...