I'd kept the toy store I'd inherited from my father, and one day I caught Duvel in the street, peering dubiously in through the display window of my shop.
Under the red neon sign of the old St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights, the display window of Michael-Towne Wines and Spirits holds a California chardonnay, a Clarksburg syrah and a Long Island merlot.
They did so under a cacophony of hymns to commodities, paeans of praise to goods and services, hosannas to market freedoms, and to a disorientingly dazzling embarrassment of riches in the display windows of the world.
These plays, by Shaw and Wilde, John Galsworthy and Christopher Fry, are well-suited to the gold-plated settings the festival favors, lavish, impeccably designed affairs that unfold with everything but a royal warrant: tea services that would not look out of place in the display windows of Asprey, fur-ruffed overcoats inspired by the likes of Cecil Beaton.
An immense, ferocious crab and myriad shrimp -- dainty, pink and doomed -- swim in the display window aquariums of the Oriental Gardens at No. 14.
So when the longtime community volunteer and former Compton city councilwoman died last month, her children opted to place her open casket in the drive-thru display window of Robert L. Adams Mortuary in Compton.
Detector B failed to report the total number of counts during 10 s when the count rate exceeded 9999 cps, due to a limitation in the number of figures of the display window.
My perfection was the Olympian poise of my models in the imperishable autumn display windows of Rogers Peet's boys' store below the State House in Boston.
Long talk story about the biggest pocket knoves in the world on display in the window of Parker & Battersby, the cutlery shop, in the R.C.A. Building.
