Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers and machine-shop foremen, a maneuver he brought off with the hearty air of the big boss at the annual company outing, made up for his rival's helicopter by singing second bass in a quartet with three Yale undergraduates at major public appearances. They sang the Whiffenpoof Song, though some...
Even when he talks art, Peirce succeeds in doing it simply, without the troubled air of most artists. "It's damned hard to judge what kind of a painter you are," he says. "For me painting is a sort of toy shop-something to play with...
Black Chiffon (by Lesley Storm; produced by John Wildberg) refers to the nightgown that matronly, well-to-do Alicia Christie (Flora Robson) shoplifted off a counter. She had gone out to shop for a dinner party in honor of her son's marriage and she came home facing trial for theft. The rest of the play searches out, with a psychiatrist's help, her motive for so strange an act, and then ponders whether she can use the motive for her defense. She finds that, just as her husband has always jealously resented her being so close...
British-born Couturier Captain Edward Molyneux put on an "everything must go" sale at his London dress shop (sample marked-down price: $2,800). He will henceforth concentrate on his Paris establishment...
...book never would have come out at all if a former House member, Robert W. Shoemaker, Jr. '33, had not volunteered to print the album free in his Anderson, Indiana, printing shop. Kirkland House Committee men had abandoned the traditional book when losses from the 1948-49 edition dug drastically into House funds...