For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.

Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.

Another specimen of such double-entendre is illustrated by a woman in a department store.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

Just as the suburban factory may be more convenient than the downtown plant to the worker with a car, the trip to the shopping center may seem far easier than to the downtown department store, though both are the same distance from home.

And if the affection for the suburban branch reflects a desire to shop with `` nice people '', rather than with the indiscriminate urban mass which supports the downtown department store, the central location may be in serious trouble.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

Deal furniture with a mahogany finish was neatly arranged as if it stood in the window of a department store.

Image: Eaton's College Street Store Toronto Canada-7th Floor Lobby Sketch. jpg | Interior drawing, Eaton's College Street department store, Toronto, Canada

* ABC Group, a department store

Nearby on Tauentzienstraße is KaDeWe, claimed to be continental Europe's largest department store.

He managed to beat Eversharp to market in late 1945 ; the first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels department store in New York City on 29 October 1945 for US $ 9. 75 each.

Others such as department store magnate James Cash Penney, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, actor / martial artist Chuck Norris, wrestlers Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Ted DiBiase and wrestler Sting, and actors Jesse McCartney, Kirk Cameron, and Mr. T are also mentioned as being born again.

In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, ( 1837 – 1891 ), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts.

With Al-Fayed selling his Harrods department store for £ 1. 5 billion it is reasonable to presume that some of this money which has kick-started this larger scale plan into life.

Out hunting one day he chanced to meet Ethel Tree ( 1873-17 July 1932, Northamptonshire ), daughter of Chicago department store founder Marshall Field.

This CD was released only in the United States in an exclusive partnership with the NBC television network and the Target department store chain.

Jenners | Jenners department store on Princes Street.

* 1845 – Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's department store and former Congressman from New York ( d. 1912 )

Rachel begins working at Bloomingdale's, an upscale department store chain, and Ross becomes jealous of her colleague, Mark.

According to Dick Cavett's New York Times blog, when the elderly Groucho visited an old friend in the hospital, he said to the elevator attendant, as if in a department store, " Men's tonsils, please.

While she continued to practice her singing, she worked many non-singing jobs in the years after high school, including a job at Bamberger's department store.

In 1978, the George Mason University Foundation purchased the former Kann's department store in Arlington.

In 1980, graduate and professional programs were also offered in the building, a converted Kann's department store.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

He moved to the feature film department as an assistant director when the company closed its animation department, working under such luminaries as Yutaka Abe and Nobuo Aoyagi.

The closest maternity units were the City of London Maternity Hospital, Finsbury Square which was bombed out during the World War II blitz and St. Bartholomews or Barts whose maternity department closed in the late 1980s.

He frequently threatens various people with a shotgun and attempts suicide ( including an annual attempt at Christmas and in the episodes " Mommie Beerest " after his bar is closed by the health department, Moe calls the suicide hotline only to discover that they ’ ve blocked his number and " Treehouse of Horror XIV " in demonstration of the absence of Death ).

Global Ontario's sports program was finally cancelled in January 2007 ; at that point, the station closed its sports department entirely, and since then has outsourced sports news coverage to The Score ( initially Rogers Sportsnet beforehand ).

In the town centre, department and chain stores closed and the sprawl of the town centre shrank.

The city's flagship department store, the four-story B. Peck & Co., closed after more than a century in business in 1982.

The city's police department closed in 1972, when one of its officers drove the town's only squad car into a tree and ruined their only source of transportation.

The building had been vacant since the late 1980s when the Troutman's department store closed and became registered on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sylvan School was closed at the end of the 2004-2005 school year and has become a handicapped preschool, as well as office space for the special services department.

When the local department store in Powell closed, the community raised $ 400, 000 and established the Powell Mercantile, a community-owned store.

That became so popular that it was closed down by the fire department for over-capacity, and Freddy helped Blue ( whom he dubbed " Kool Lady Blue ") find another home for the party.

The then owners had no confidence in Hasselblad's already advanced digital project returning a profit, and, seeing the relative success in the market of the modern ( i. e. fully automated ) 645 cameras made by manufacturers like Pentax and Mamiya, closed down Hasselblad's digital department and directed all effort towards making this 645 film camera.

In January 2009, it was reported by PCWorld that Microsoft closed down the ACES Game Studio, which was the department responsible for creating and maintaining the flight simulator series.

Stricken by financial difficulties, the club merged with the Clube de Regatas Tietê, another sports club from the town, and the football department was closed on May 14, 1935.

On July 17, 1997, Woolworth's closed its remaining department stores in the U. S. and changed its corporate name to Venator.

Despite being established by one of the key figures in the field, Richard Hoggart, and being later directed by the renowned theorist Stuart Hall, the department was controversially closed down.

In October 2004, ITV plc closed Central's presentation / transmission department and moved transmission to the Northern Transmission Centre in Leeds.

Due to declining popularity and funding, the German department closed in December 2004, although retaining its physics degree despite the subject facing similar pressures.

La Samaritaine, another upscale department store also owned by LVMH, closed in 2005.

The British department store, Debenhams, purchased the Roches Stores chain in 2006, closed two stores and rebranded the others.

The store closed down at the end of 2008 when the retailer went into liquidation, and the building was re-occupied by a new T J Hughes department store which opened on 9 October 2009.

The Woolworths store on Market Place closed in December 2008 when the company went bankrupt, and Beatties closed its store-the last department store in the town-in January 2010, after more than 40 years due to falling trade.

A department official overheard Hull muttering under his breath as the door closed, ' Scoundrels and piss-ants.