"Wanamaker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reputation for absolute fairness and honesty is as firmly established among people who have had dealings with us as the reputation of Wanamaker's or Marshall Field's. ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons
... Then he went to Wanamaker's, and spent an hour in the teapot section trying one pattern after the other, patiently pouring water, provided by a tipped but languid and supercilious assistant, out of each different make of ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... the then President, Mr. Harrison; the Vice-President, Mr. Morton, who was owner or part owner of one of the large Washington hotels; and Mr. Wanamaker, Postmaster General, well known as "an ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... he has the Metropolitan Museum to go to; and there's Wanamaker's picture-gallery, too. Has he been ...
— The Whole Family - A Novel by Twelve Authors • William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jo
... Scylla of Simpson, Crawford & Simpson's on Sixth Avenue—and its Charybdis of the Big Store—past the jungles of Altman's, Ehrich's and O'Neill's—to dash feebly upon the buttressed corner of Macy's, and then die away in refluent, diverted waves, lost in the fastnesses of McCreery's and Wanamaker's, far ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... would be the antiphony of the unphilosophical one. "Why, I heard Wanamaker's was trying to get you to sublet part of your floor space to ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... had been shooing the bailiff till Wanamaker came along and financed that Atlantic aeroplane that was too heavy to carry its weight; and Lieutenant Porte, who was to take it across, was in a fix till this war came along and called him over. Orville Wright is trying to make a do of his factory. It is significant that Captain Mitchell, ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor |
