May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
... in the United Kingdom as early as 1912.
Writers and artists in the United States such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Held, Jr.[?], and Anita Loos[?] popularized th ...