Word: lothrop
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that has been the general line on the subject, spliced here and there with a quibble on what actually constitutes a luxury (Voltaire holding that it is anything above a necessity), or a rare defense: "Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with its necessities" (John Lothrop Motley). Still, history's high livers have been accused of every imaginable sin: active, cardinal, political, cosmic, original...
...have convened for a permanent caucus - Mormon, Universalist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Swedenborgian. There are many distinctive areas like this. Glen Echo is an amusement park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War. Walt Whitman wrote of soldiers dying there between...
...debt load by $3.46 billion, after a $3.43 billion drop in May. Any cash left over is now being stashed away in savings accounts. The level of savings, which was down to a paltry 3.5% of disposable income in January, has risen to 4.7%. Says William McDonald of Woodward & Lothrop, a Washington-based department store chain: "Consumers were made to believe it was unpatriotic to buy with credit, and that mood will be very slow to unwind...