Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Storm Troopers" who for weeks had annoyed the upper-bracket suburb of Metairie by smashing street lights, throwing rocks through train windows, and general hell-raising. They carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that Hitler is still alive in Argentina. I am going there to join him when...
...York's World-Telegram and Sun, Edward J. Mowery, 46, is known as a "singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery...
...cream riot was the first colossal eruption since the Cornell skirmish of 1947, when students derailed trolley cars, smashed store windows, and roughed up townspeople. But before that, Yale New Haven history is rife with tales of bloody encounters...
...always interesting to see exactly what happens to tickets for very popular events, such as today's Harvard-Yale football classic. The other day I was standing in one of the leading clothing stores on Massachusetts Avenue, when I heard the following telephone conversation. The owner of the store, holding two tickets for today's game in his hand, was bickering over price. Finally, $25 which I understand to be under the current price of scalpers was agreed upon. The owner of the store apparently was asked by the person on the other end of the line to phone back...
...Package store owners are hoping for a cold day. "If it's warm," Varsity Liquor Store manager Frank Purcell said, "They'll buy beer. If it's cold, they'll buy the hard stuff." Brandy and cognac sales have been up all week and almost all of the punch bowls at the Hamilton Liquor Store are rented...