Word: vending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the Empress Eugénie hat reappeared cautiously last spring the style world took a guess. It was a saucy fillip to be followed by surprises. U. S. department store buyers, fashion reporters, newsgatherers, sweltering in a Paris hot spell, dodged traffic last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera...
...professional investment adviser, now spends $400,000 a year in research, handles some $325,000,000 in funds. Representatives of both firms are on the bank's board. Fiduciary Trust will specialize in trust business and estate administration, will do commercial banking (although it accepts checking accounts), will vend no securities. "Continuity of independence and policies, Specialization and Research" are the three characteristics it calls distinguishing. To Root, Clark & Buckner and to Scudder, Stevens & Clark, the bank will be a big client, also one to whom they can send much business. Chairman of Fiduciary Trust which starts business with...
From the Place Vendôme to the Etoile, along the avenues and down the alleys where Paris couturiers have their lairs and set the world's fashions, all was feverish activity last week. U. S. department store buyers and fashion reporters, newsgatherers and ladies of the haute monde scurried from one fashion house to the next, for it was the official Fall Opening. They and the waiting world were eager to learn what the well-dressed woman must wear for the next six months...
Married. Princess Marie Louise d'Orleans, daughter of the Duc de Vendôme, niece of King Albert of Belgium; to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. of Manhattan & Paris; in Chichester, England. Curious secrecy, many detectives, surrounded the little vine-covered church. The bridegroom, as well as the 30 guests, presented a card for admittance...
Engaged. Princess Marie Louise d' Orleans, daughter of the Duc de Vendôme, niece of King Albert of Belgium; to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. of Manhattan & Paris...