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[Redacted] may battle
With their tomahawks and axes
I'll join the cattle
In the big corral at Saks's!
Lorenz Hart, Babes in Arms
Let's hear all the musical theater songs that name-check department stores.
I can think of four off the top of my head, but let's see what ya got.
Mahler's Bakery does not count!
[Redacted] may battle
With their tomahawks and axes
I'll join the cattle
In the big corral at Saks's!
Lorenz Hart, Babes in Arms
I'll show myself out.
Oh my gosh, there have to be a skillion more Woolworth mentions!
Or after supper one of the girls
Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls
The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they leave it at that
Oh my gosh, there have to be a skillion more Woolworth mentions!
"on from Bergdorf Goodmannnnnn"
Let's see Wanamaker's Store.
Let's go to Lindy's, go to Luchow's;
Let's see Radio City and Herald Square.
Go to Reuben's! Go to Macy's!
To the Roxy! Cloisters! Gimbel's!
THIRD WOMAN
Valentina's where I've been,
I just adore Val --
Things with good lines.
ELLA
Like things from Klein's.
Let's hear all the musical theater songs that name-check department stores.
I can think of four off the top of my head, but let's see what ya got.
Mahler's Bakery does not count!
Let's hear all the musical theater songs that name-check department stores.
I can think of four off the top of my head, but let's see what ya got.
Mahler's Bakery does not count!
(Featuring special guest stars Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Plus typos.)
(Featuring special guest stars Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Plus typos.)
Every turnip green! Every kidney bean!
Every turnip green! Every kidney bean!
Good gosh!
Have a kumquat, have two! “
Good gosh!
I’m guessing it all goes back to the meanest thing my grandmother could ever say about someone:
“Poor dear—she can’t keep help.”
Kristi Noem reportedly fired a Coast Guard pilot for failing to move a blanket of Noem's from one plane to another amid mechanical difficulties.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
I’m guessing it all goes back to the meanest thing my grandmother could ever say about someone:
“Poor dear—she can’t keep help.”
"Plenty of Pennsylvania," from cult favorite* Plain and Fancy, which also gives a shoutout (it rolls from a to z) to, among others, iceberg lettuce and zucchini.
And xplant.
*I like it.
"Plenty of Pennsylvania," from cult favorite* Plain and Fancy, which also gives a shoutout (it rolls from a to z) to, among others, iceberg lettuce and zucchini.
And xplant.
*I like it.