Word: gaslit
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...Song Before Supper. Last week The Yellow Rose of Texas was on a gaslit stage back in Civil War days, with drummer girls marching to its stirring beat. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing took place in a many-splendored pastoral scene (with a dismounted Gisele Mackenzie in riding clothes). Love and Marriage was in an abstract setting of sky and bliss, concluding with a wedding procession. The Shifting, Whispering Sands had Snooky Lanson looking like an obbligato against a film showing "the beauty and terror of the desert." Moments to Remember (a comedy number) went to Africa, where...
After Due Consideration. In Manhattan, a 65-year-old recluse explained that she kept to her ancient, gaslit house because "there just aren't any people around any more worth knowing...
...grandson of shopkeepers who would have been flabbergasted by his store's opulence. On his office wall hangs one of his father's ads: "Ladies wrappers at 37½" Edwin Goodman started out as a tailor working for Manhattan dressmaker Herman Bergdorf in a little gaslit shop on lower Fifth Avenue, soon bought into the business with $15,000 borrowed from relatives. One day, Goodman helped make a special suit for Bergdorf's sister, who was private secretary to Mrs. William Goadby Loew, a prominent society matron. Mrs. Loew admired the suit, spread the word among...
...training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...
...they opened their first store, The Great American Tea Co., on Manhattan's Vesey Street. They used all the glitter and tinsel of a circus. The store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this...