Word: bazaar
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...beggar's name was Stephen Blau. He came from Austria during World War I. He opened a bazaar, buying & selling old paintings, stamps, clothes. For a time he did well, and at the peak of his prosperity represented Austria as honorary consul. Then he ran into hard times. In 1926 he closed his business, leaving 28 sealed boxes in pawn for the $5 he owed his landlady, and started peddling pencils...
...Paris, high-styled Harper's Bazaar might or might not soon lose its local correspondent. Leg-girl Doris Duke's groom of seven weeks, Porfirio Rubirosa, was appointed Dominican Ambassador to Argentina...
...International News Service. Said Dee-Dee: "I've been searching for some kind of work both useful and interesting." In 1946 she returned to the U.S. and revisited Shangri-La. Last spring she fluttered back to Paris, this time as a fashion editor for Harper's Bazaar. There last week Dee-Dee got married again...
Cairo housewives hurried to Hanafi Farag's dry-goods store in Cairo's crowded bazaar, the Mûski. El Khoury silk, marked down from $2.90, turned out to be mostly large, splashy flower designs in reds, greens and blues, and was of Egyptian manufacture. It went fast, for dresses. Gromyko satin, marked down from $2.41, came in solid pastels. Somewhat unfortunately (for political verisimilitude), Gromyko satin had been made in Franco Spain. But it was selling well, too, chiefly for nighties, housecoats, slips and panties...
...outcries, women were already showing enough enthusiasm for the New Look to pull the dress industry out of its slump and set it humming. Hems of old dresses were being let down with such speed that many a town ran out of seam tape. Said Harper's Bazaar airily: "Clear your closet and get your clothes into the hands of those who can use them [in Europe]." But the dresses most likely to be sought would probably be closer to Sophie Gimbel's ideas than to Dior...