Word: storing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail or the edge of a chromium table to peek at the new models...
...buildings at Bethesda, where the Government's newly subsidized cancer research will take place. The donor of that ground was Luke Wilson Sr., 65, philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, great & good friend of Surgeon General Parran, of Senator Robert La Follette (for whose Civil Liberties Committee Luke Wilson Jr. is an investigator), of Secretary Roper. On July 19 Donor Wilson died, of cancer...
...heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung a plaster female stark naked.* bottom down on a beach rug of artificial flowers, tossed the costume on a beach chair. Since such capers by the aristocrats of haute couture are not intended to please everyone, Paris' great department store Le Louvre is handy at the Exposition, selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear quality and style at moderate prices. Example: at 2,200 francs ($80) Le Louvre last week offered a striking white Cellophane backless evening dress, the front bodice and hips covered with white sequins applied like...
...goods store window dressers have always quickly aped every Paris exposition and last week in Manhattan swank Saks-Fifth Avenue filled its windows with similar naked mannequins and fur coats flung about. Result: most women walkers on Fifth Avenue hurried past the little knots who gathered to gaze and scoff...
...whom she did not know, but who casually asked her if she had ever noticed that Marquette's garb was incorrect. Though no Catholic, Dr. Nesbit was incensed, lost no time in lining up such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair store and Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. of the packing company to raise $200 to have Marquette's robe altered. Last week Dr. Nesbit's plans became public when Commissioner of Public Works Oscar Edwin Hewitt approved the project on condition that a competent sculptor could be found...