Word: underwear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BOSTON-R. H. White Co.; upstairs: Miss H. Gilchrist, underwear: J. Garabedian, rugs; basement; Miss S. Summer, millinery; M. Silverman close-outs, seconds, sportswear, knitwear, robes, cosmetics; 1440 Bway. (Assoc. Mdsg. Corp...
...Detroit, after he had lost $2,000 in Government bonds at a revival service, the Rev. William H. Grain said. "I can't understand it. I had them tucked away in my sock, with the bottom of my long underwear pulled down tight over the sock. Mind you, though, I don't suspect any of the brethren...
...hobnobbed with Wanamakers, Goulds, Fishes, Astors, Oelrichs. Born in Baltimore, son of a once-wealthy importer, he consciously made entertaining rich people his career. Tom Wanamaker was glad to let him occupy his apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts and underwear, only asked that he let it be discreetly known where he got them. Black, Starr & Frost provided watches and cigaret-cases. Mrs. Clarence Mackay got her husband to let him send Postal telegrams for nothing. Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave him passes on their husbands' railroads...
...works and organ numbers, the president of Strawbridge & Clothier is often seen jotting down melodies on sheets of ruled paper he carries in his pocket. He insists that the elevator girls in the store take elocution lessons so that they may sing out "Third Floor, Ladies' & Misses' Underwear!" in the proper way. (He also insists that the girls be young and demure, with busts no larger than 36 in.) A shrewd and canny businessman, he lifted Strawbridge & Clothier's gross revenue from $20,000,000 in 1933 to $23,000,000 last year, reported earnings...
Near the northern end of the Mohawk Valley at the gateway to the lake country of upper New York is Utica (pop. 100,000), maker of one-third of all the nation's knitted underwear. Remote from a metropolis, Utica society is nothing if not clubby. Rare is the matron who does not belong to one of the town's State-famed musical societies, garden clubs, welfare organizations...