Sam's garage is going to be no five-and-ten affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
And I went to work at the Woolworth's five-and-ten there in. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Edna Y. Hargett, July 19, 1979. Interview H-0163. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
It is obvious that with the sleazy modern materials available in any five-and-ten a rider can produce a pretty handsome costume. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
One time, a five-and-ten shop failed to charge us the right price for a Halloween costume; when I pointed it out, she marched back in and gave them the rest of their money. From Wordnik.com. [Cake Boss] Reference
And so on, through five-and-ten cent store, soda and newspaper carrier jobs, until at last he was a bell-hop at the Green - Davidson, the finest hotel in Kansas City, as he informed them. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
People walked along listening to transistor radios because there were stations with auxiliary power and there were men wrapped in headscarves who sold flashlights and candles and there were candles in thousands of apartment windows and people on line for candles outside the five-and-ten and long lines at phone booths on every second corner. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
"And there was a dress shop, a five-and-ten, a news agency.". From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference
Closest to O'Brien's are the five-and-ten stores in Concord and Arlington. From Wordnik.com. Reference
His fistful of five-and-ten dollar bills proved the bead business was booming-although he said it was all being donated to the Global Education Foundation for cultural projects in North Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
"His whole life was the paper," Mr. Vonnegut observes about a journalist, "and his talking of quitting it was like a trout's talking of quitting a mountain stream to get a job in a five-and-ten.". From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
For this week's cover, he took seven youngsters-aged 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, and all relatives of TIME staffers-to a Broadway arcade, where they posed for pictures in one of these old five-and-ten type camera booths. From Wordnik.com. [Photobooth Blog] Reference
There was an unmade bed in a corner, a litter of newspapers and old clothes, a gas ring, a framed landscape from the five-and-ten, representing some sort of sick brown meadows with sheep; there were no drawings or figures, no hints of the occupant's profession. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountainhead]
Tessie knew that presently the woman would come out, bundle laden, and that she would stow these lesser bundles in every corner left available by the more important sleeping bundle -- two yards of oilcloth; a spool of 100, white; a banana for the baby; a new stewpan at the five-and-ten. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
"Did you ever notice me leaning on the remnant counter or peering in the window of the five-and-ten?. From Wordnik.com. [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference
The mega-pharmacy may well kill the town’s family-owned five-and-ten, which sells toiletries, as well as the small Main Street pharmacy. From Wordnik.com. [Hamptons Overdrive] Reference
You might go to Macy’s because R. H. Macy was a great merchant and a great salesman and a brilliant man who got everyone to think Macy’s when he wanted to buy anything beyond five-and-ten stuff – but whom do you find?. From Wordnik.com. [From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor] Reference
An 'the two returns was five-and-ten. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
She buys 'em for him at the five-and-ten. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Women on a Holiday] Reference
33, worked in a five-and-ten as a kid in McKeesport, Pa. From Wordnik.com. [Photobooth Blog] Reference
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