Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Levittown II is all plan and purpose, down to the location and design of every house, store, school, road, park, playground, filling station and small factory site. The Levitts have even chosen the colors of the houses, named the streets, decided where to plant 250,000 trees and shrubs and "carried their meticulous construction to a point where 8 lbs. of yellow nails are delivered (on time) to every seventh house-which happens to have yellow siding...
...Jordan Marsh, a higher class store, it cost in cents to see the man of the month. Half an acre of tracks, in a frame of fascinated faces, sprawled over the floor. But there was nothing new. After last year's smoking, screaming models that discharged passengers and cattle with the same intriguing efficiency, what else is there left to invent...
...quarter of a century ago, when Claus was busy "spreading good cheer and good wishes" in a department store, he was forced for the first time to take legal action to assert his rights. The opinion of the court sets forth the situation...
...clothes. Whether this conduct of the children necessitated a readjustment of his clothes, or whether appellant (Claus) merely desired to stop the same, is not clear; but he says that, because of this conduct of the children, he went into a room in the rear part of the store and there he undertook to light a cigarette. He...struck the match and started to light his cigarette, and (his) beard...caught fire, and appellant suffered a serious injury to his face and hands...
...usual to see his wife. She lay in bed, staring straight ahead. "I am sorry," said the doctor to Adrien. "She does not know you any more." Adrien stared and stared, then he shuffled away, his legs moving uncertainly, his hands shaking, his face drawn and haggard. The department store manager regretfully allowed him to quit, got a new man to play Santa Claus. Children clambered obediently to his lap, and business went on as usual. But, from time to time, a palsied old man with a white beard could be seen peering anxiously in the store window only...