Word: emporium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, most several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...
...Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium: "Gee, isn't he [Raitt] cute! He can put his Imperial on my wash rack any time!" Jack Benny had the embarrassed air of one trapped in a cold Shower that could not be shut...
...return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...
...Laurence Whittemore of New England papermaker Brown Co., give anywhere from 10% to 30% of their time to civic projects. In Los Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell his Builders Emporium, a popular, Sears-like operation for do-it-yourselfers, so he could devote more time to community affairs. In Denver President Joseph Ross of Denver's Daniels & Fisher department store currently leads or serves on some 33 Denver civic projects. And, says a friend, "Joe doesn't just...
After Stafford Leake Warren's family moved from New Mexico to Hayward, Calif, in 1899, young Staff used to run errands for the town drugstore. This emporium still stocked leeches and bleeding cups for one of the local doctors, a spry oldster who had never gone to medical school. Half a century and a couple of medical revolutions later, Dean Stafford Warren of the University of California School of Medicine at Los Angeles looked on pridefully on Graduation Day as the 33 men and three women of his second graduating class won the right to put the cherished initials...