Word: stovers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...odds were too much for Herr Professor, and as a result the entire class will make a field trip today to Billings and Stover to get its reward...
...Recently Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi asserted that Wendell Willkie's father had once lived in Columbus, Miss, under an assumed name: "John Stover." Last week indignant Willkie Democrats of Mississippi offered to give $1,000 to the Red Cross if anyone could prove it. At Columbus, 80-year-old Historian E. R. Hopkins cracked: "Senator Bilbo says a lot of things besides his prayers...
...great many famous people have traded with Billings and Stover. Nearly all the big names in Harvard history for the past eighty-five years are recorded in the prescription books, of which there are 112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a prescription filed once for stomach trouble. All the Roosevelts, too, from the elder Kermit and Teddy on down to our contemporaries, have been regular customers. Mr. Mahoney speaks of Norman Prince, who was the first American to die with the Lafayette Escadrille. And Mr. Justice Frankfurter, though now in Washington, still keeps his account at Billings and Stover. Only...
Ninety-five percent of Billings and Stover's business is professional prescription work. Mr. Mahoney considers his soda, cigarettes, and candy supply only a necessary evil. There aren't any swivel-stools in front of the soda fountain. But business along that line is good enough to warrent the presence of two great barrels of Coca-Cola syrup among the "reserves supplies" down cellar...
...Mahoney, "but they're on hand too." If you look long enough on the thickly packed shelves you'll even find a relatively mild and subdued form of youth restorative. A woman could almost have a baby in there all by herself. The complete apothecary--that's Billings and Stover. The six registered pharmacists employed there fill out over 200 prescriptions every day. And at 10:02 last night the total number of prescriptions filled since 1854 had reached exactly...