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Wanamaker   /wˈɑnəmˌeɪkər/   Listen
Wanamaker

noun
1.
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922).  Synonym: John Wanamaker.






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"Wanamaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... idea—of course, everything is subject to your own revision and change. The article, we will say, is written by a TYPICAL train hoister—one without your education and powers of expression (bouquet) but intelligent enough to convey his ideas from HIS STANDPOINT—not from John Wanamaker's. Yet, in order to please John, we will have to assume a virtue that we do not possess. Comment on the moral side of the proposition as little as possible. Do not claim that holding up trains is the only business a ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry



Words linked to "Wanamaker" :   businessman, John Wanamaker, man of affairs



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