"I feel like a mail-order bride from Canada," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Dumb Luck] Reference
Lillian Vernon - started the mail-order catalogue business. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Randel: Necessity is the Mother of Invention] Reference
Sears, Roebuck sold 100,000 mail-order homes in the early 1900s. From Wordnik.com. [Design: Beyond The Trailer Park] Reference
I was reminded of this yesterday when I had to call a mail-order pharmacy. From Wordnik.com. [If you’re totally frustrated, press 1] Reference
Those mail-order catalogs were of enormous importance to the homesteaders. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Each year 100 million trees are turned into 20 million mail-order catalogues. From Wordnik.com. [Maria Rodale: I Bet You Don't Know Jack about Dirt!] Reference
You wouldn't expect some mail-order bride to manage your investment portfolio. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
The mail-order business, threatened by Internet players like eBay, is losing even more. From Wordnik.com. [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference
Chicken Boy: How did a friedchicken-stand statue beget an L.A. mail-order kitsch empire?. From Wordnik.com. [Peri Picks] Reference
Here we have a story covering an absolutely new field -- that of the mail-order business. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
Gen. Edwin Walker, with the same mail-order rifle he trained on Kennedy seven months later. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind Of The Assassin] Reference
I resisted the idea mightily, thinking this ranked right up there with mail-order marriages. From Wordnik.com. [When ‘Goodbye’ Is A Click Away] Reference
It's no accident that the logo for her mail-order service is a beehive: everybody knows who the queen is. From Wordnik.com. [Be-Marthas, Do-Marthas And Beyond Martha] Reference
State taxation of out-of-state mail-order sales and Hawaii's ban on write-in voting also were left unscathed. From Wordnik.com. [The Hands-Off Court] Reference
Sanctuary, as Cher's new mail-order endeavor is known, boasts an eerie cover shot of the actress in a Gothic home. From Wordnik.com. [Better Homes And Castles] Reference
It is true that the mail-order houses also have performed good services in the general task of making a new country. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
But at that point sales slowed as too many mail-order companies began sending too many catalogs to the same households. From Wordnik.com. [SWIMMING UPSTREAM] Reference
At the same time, e-commerce allows mail-order firms to cut costs by mailing fewer catalogs and hiring fewer phone reps. From Wordnik.com. [SWIMMING UPSTREAM] Reference
And I went in there one day with that little mail-order thing and he said: Why don't you let me help you get your good guitar?. From Wordnik.com. [Doc Watson: An Old-Time Folk Musician With Soul] Reference
mail-order companies “Catalogs have come a long way since 1872 …” began our October 1987 report on mail-order companies. From Wordnik.com. [Five insider shopping tips for Gordon Gekko] Reference
Under a 1992 Supreme Court decision, states cannot impose sales taxes on most products sold by out-of-state mail-order houses. From Wordnik.com. [Why Not Tax The Internet?] Reference
Indeed, on Monday Netflix, the mail-order DVD rental service, launched what some considered a pre-emptive strike against Apple. From Wordnik.com. [Thin Is In at Macworld] Reference
Wood was a meticulous researcher, pouring over mail-order catalogs to get the clothes and equipment in his paintings just right. From Wordnik.com. [American Idol] Reference
So like other catalog companies, Bean began exploring how to integrate its mail-order business with forays into malls and the Web. From Wordnik.com. [SWIMMING UPSTREAM] Reference
For mail-order do-it-yourselfers, Dynacorn Classic Bodies also offers 1967 and 1969 Chevrolet Camaro coupe and convertible bodies. From Wordnik.com. [2007 SEMA - Build-your-own new 1967 Mustang fastback] Reference
Promises Kept., a mail-order company in Minneapolis, devotes a section of its catalog exclusively to quality toys for grandchildren. From Wordnik.com. [Dipping Into Granny's Wallet] Reference
A recent visit to Michigan reminded me that Sears once sold mail-order houses, the ones that still dot the great Midwest and elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [One for the ages: A Sears mail-order 'modern home'] Reference
But when the stove, the cheapest listed in the mail-order catalog, arrived, Ida Mary cried with disappointment and then began to laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Medco, which has mail-order and call-center pharmacies, is expanding beyond its core business, moving into lab testing and other areas. From Wordnik.com. [Medco to acquire United BioSource] Reference
But wait-that's not some guy selling car wax; it's Cher, the abominably rich mega-star, and she's flacking mail-order hair-care products. From Wordnik.com. [Cher And Cher Alike] Reference
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