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Word: woolworth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tower Magazine, sold in Woolworth stores. Tower's gumchewers' magazines are headed by able Publisher Catherine McNelis, who also publishes the intellectualist American Spectator, of which Dreiser was a onetime editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Thrice-Told Tale | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Prank | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...month, was to pick from an overabundance of able young players the four who function best together. Younger, lighter, with an aggregate handicap of 30 goals to the West's 36, East last week had only one seasoned Internationalist: Winston Guest, who had returned from a honeymoon withhis Woolworth heiress bride, Helena McCann Guest, just in time for the trial matches. Of his three teammates only one played in the East-West series last year. Mike Phipps is a stubby, hard-riding youngster who was a member of Yale's intercollegiate championship team in 1930 and 1932. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo Pickings | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...Wendel mansion and grounds were appraised last April at $4,500,000. S. H. Kress & Co. announced that they would replace the gloomy old house with the finest store in their system. But competition will be close at hand. A block up Fifth Avenue is F. W. Woolworth's famed Store No. 1000, opened in 1918 and stocked with quality goods to attract sophisticated Fifth Avenue shoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wendel into Kress | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Engaged. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member of Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Plays; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene." Married. Helena Woolworth McCann, 21, granddaughter of the late 5?-&-10? Store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 27, poloist; in Oyster Bay, Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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