When the window-dresser quit, Ms. Price asked for the job. From Wordnik.com. [Candy Pratts Price Preps Dec. VH1- Vogue Fashion Awards] Reference
He was also a window-dresser, and he had a client who was a Chinese guy who ran a department store on Canal Street, and I remember going down there — this was around 1960, 1961. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD: A Q&A with Richard Price About the "Lush Life" Exhibition] Reference
Baum was an actor, producer, salesman, pitchman, entrepreneur, window-dresser, purveyor of popular but critically ignored stories under a half-dozen different pseudonyms, a loving but never settled family man forever hosting parties for his children and their friends, staging magic-lantern shows and puppet plays and carving wooden geese for his soon-to-be-sold beach house. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Road] Reference
The chemistry between Rhoda and Joe was immediate and vital, as it had to be, because millions of Americans had spent Saturday nights during the previous four years watching best friends Mary and Rhoda endure bad dates, suffer intrusions from neighbor Phyllis and navigate the ups and downs of their respective careers (Mary a producer of local news at WJM-TV, Rhoda a window-dresser at the department store Hempel's). From Wordnik.com. ["General Hospital" and "Rhoda" Star David Groh Made TV History] Reference
Didn't Percy even once denominate me as "a window-dresser"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
The French tradesman is a better window-dresser than the Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzling Years Ahead] Reference
"I'm a window-dresser from New York; have you got a drink handy?" he said. From Wordnik.com. [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference
I could see that he was not what in the old days I'd have called a window-dresser. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
The window-dresser was lost again in the bank manager who has arranged a profitable overdraft. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Chinatown] Reference
It was beautiful to see, and the pride of the window-dresser of the Golden Eagle Clothing Store. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Town] Reference
But a few more pages, and I began to wonder, why is he simulating the expertise of a window-dresser?. From Wordnik.com. [Death Ends Fun] Reference
After he fulfilled his military obligations, in the years 1954 - 1960, he became a window-dresser ia a prestigious department store, La Rinascente. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
Now Mr. Povey attached importance to tickets, and since he was acknowledged to be the best window-dresser in Bursley, his views were entitled to respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Momentarily the window-dresser leapt into life as Agapoulos beheld one of his cunning effects destroyed, but he forced a smile when Grantham, shrugging his shoulders, replied. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Chinatown] Reference
After escaping an insect-infested cork factory in Reading, Simon Doonan became creative director of Barneys in New York, a newspaper columnist and the most famous window-dresser in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Such was Stephen Thorle, a governess in the nursery of Chelsea-bred religions, a skilled window-dresser in the emporium of his own personality, and needless to say, evanescently popular amid a wide but shifting circle of acquaintances. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Bassington] Reference
As a Reading boy turned window-dresser turned creative director of Barneys and celebrated newspaper columnist, he has documented many of his adventures in two memoirs, the second of which, Beautiful People, is the inspiration for a new television series. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He did not get rises; he lost situations; there was something in his eye employers did not like; he would have lost his places oftener if he had not been at times an exceptionally brilliant salesman, rather carefully neat, and a slow but very fair window-dresser. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
That the freely selectable connection can be easily used by the window-dresser free of accident and at any time. From Wordnik.com. [9. Commercial Lighting Fittings] Reference
In response, the resident a natty window-dresser who resides in the incorporated city was quick to note that – contrary to Prang’s position on the matter – he felt he was within his rights to decorate his property in the manner in which he did. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Palin…offending effigy taken down. Well-hung house-dressing by window-dresser 2 much for Nation! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference
David Lynch, window-dresser. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
So Obamma is very certainly a window-dresser. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
1960, he became a window-dresser ia a prestigious department store, La Rinascente. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
"Some Broadway window-dresser has misused you. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
Well-hung house-dressing by window-dresser 2 much for Nation!. From Wordnik.com. [American Cinemateque presents! Horror Classics for Halloween. October 30th at Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference
Mules -- Cacao -- La Delicia -- My first trail -- Rum -- A first-class road -- The Córdovez Family -- Easy money -- Salinas -- Chimborazo -- A window-dresser -- An industrial revolution -- I retire from business. From Wordnik.com. [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference
Loncraine does fans of "Oz" a great favor: Not only does she provide fascinating information about Baum's amazing life -- he was, at various times and with varying degrees of success, an actor, a salesman, a chicken farmer, a lecturer, a window-dresser for a Chicago department store, a journalist, a movie mogul -- but she also manages to put the man squarely back in his own time: America in the late 19th Century, when technological progress raged at a fever pitch, when. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
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