Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once, I remember, I was talking to a very large crowd in front of the big department store in Red Square. Suddenly it began to rain. I could see the crowd wanted me to keep talking. Two Red Army soldiers standing in the crowd were the only ones with raincoats. Someone said something to one of them, and he took off his raincoat and gave it to me. People asked if I would mind talking in the rain...
...untried, young sub-freshman at Vassar is being treated this year (and, we suspect, every year) to a little booklet which tells in a chatty down-Poughkeepsie sort of way what the little tyke has in store for her. She is warned, before the book is four pages done, that Vassar offers no course in writing poetry: the book opens with the verselet, "Letters, pamphlets, luncheons, teas--/Until the Freshman thinks she sees/Just what Vassar has in store. /But the following year will tell the score...
...housewife (Joanne Woodward) who complains of blinding headaches and "spells." After a few talks with the doctor, she feels some relief. Then one day, months later, her husband (David Wayne) finds the bedroom strewn with flashy clothes which she insists she did not buy; but the people at the store, who know her well, insist she did. Back to the doctor, who begins to suspect that there is more to Eve White than meets...
...ignore a good prop, especially in the presence of photographers, Mathieu once donned helmet and greaves to paint his The Battle of Bonvines (TIME, March 7, 1955). For Tokyo, what else, but a kimono? Arriving at the base ment of the Shirokiya department store, where a crowd of Japanese were already straining at the wire barrier, Mathieu stripped, donned a loose, flowing blue-and-white yukata. girded himself with a black waist sash, topped off with a red hachimaki wound round his head...
With the building occupied ahead of dedication and the 2,000 employees purring with content at twelve bowling alleys, beauty and barber shops, card rooms, general store, lending library and ping-pong tables, President Wilde found hirings up 70%, turnover down 20%. And from Architect Bunshaft, already applying the hard-won discoveries on half a dozen even newer buildings, there was a satisfied, "I think this is the best job we've done. The big thrill is to see a dream happen...