Word: shop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Londoners began to cock their ears for bombs rather than Beethoven, London's concert halls shut up shop. But last week London music opened at a new stand, started doing a rushing business. The hall was London's venerable and massive National Gallery, whose thousands of priceless canvases were long since taken from their frames and stored "somewhere in England." Famed British Pianist Myra Hess and her teacher, 81-year-old Tobias Matthay, thought up the cheerful idea of filling the empty, tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With...
Around whiskey bottles, wherever duck shooters gathered at dusk last week† shop talk was the same. Oldsters held forth about the good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before...
Leopold Morse's University Shop has successfully introduced a new way of showing its customers the latest styles in men's clothing. The management of the Shop has been holding a two-day open house, with soft drinks and crackers, thus giving their Harvard customers plenty of leisure to look over the styles...
...large number of students and today an even greater number is expected to come. Students will be able to take advantage of this free entertainment during the regular business hours from 9 o'clock in the morning to closing time at 9 o'clock tonight. The manager of the Shop is anxious to have as many men as possible drop in during...
...from last year except for narrower radiators with rounded edges and more chrome grille work. Four lines (two of them brand new) are priced $20 to $100 lower this year at $867 to $6,283. The new 160 & 180 (eight cylinders, 160 h.p.) replace the Super Eight and Twelve. Shop talk: big gains in power-to-weight ratio...