Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A year ago the F. W. Woolworth Co., 5¢ & 10¢ bazaarists, were doing practically no advertising, But bobbed-haired Catherine McNelis, able president of the McNelis-Weir advertising agency (Manhattan), thought they should. She consulted Woolworth executives, told them of a plan: advertise in magazines, arrange with manufacturers of Woolworth...
Thus having gained the confidence of Woolworth executives, Agents McNelis & Weir ambitiously toyed with another idea. Why not sell magazines in Woolworth's?not magazines already in existence, but magazines edited especially for Woolworth customers, sold only in Woolworth stores? There was an outlet of approximately three billion persons annually...
An Irish-Creole girl of New Orleans, originally named Dolores McCord, she paraded down the main street of Galveston in the first crinoline that town ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first...
The Significance. There is a supposition that Nana, Naturalist Zola's novel, includes some Menken escapades. Nana, one of the realest characters of all fiction, lives and breathes lustily for present-day readers while Adah Menken, who lived just as lustily, pulsates feebly in Author Oursler's sentimental...
The sentences were no heavier because the bankers concealed no assets, gave up their entire personal property, some $223,000, for the benefit of the depositors. Moreover it was acknowledged that the junior partners, although guilty parties, had gained little or nothing personally from the crash which was attributed mainly...