The fifth volume of the report of "Women and Child Wage Earners" in the United States gives the result of a careful inquiry into "the relation of wages to the moral condition of department store women.
In connection with this, the investigators secured "the personal histories of one hundred immoral women," of whom ten were or had been employed in a department store.
In her desire to earn more money the country girl came to the nearest large city, Chicago, to work in a department store.
How did it happen that an elevator in a department store at night ran of its own accord with no one to work the lever?
Imagine a great virtuoso, one of the famous musicians of our land, being in a department store at two hours before midnight!
We'll get them in a department store, and have them delivered at once," replied Anne.
She had beguiled an armchair from Mrs. Bowse, and had re- covered it herself with a remnant of crimson stuff secured from a miscellaneous heap at a marked-down sale at a department store.
Before marriage she was a salesgirl in a department store, worked fairly hard for rather small pay, but was strong, jolly, liked dancing and amusements, liked men and had her girl friends.
One of her sisters is married to a man who is successful in law, and the other sister is an executive in a department store.
Thus he lost his one advantage over the department store--his strength in the region where it was weak; and of course he succumbed.
It is doubtless too late to lament or try to resist the course of business that has gone far to turn the pharmacy into a department store.
The investigator was present when a young thief, X 50, sold the madame, X 51, a dress he claimed to have stolen from a department store.
While talking with the investigator, Irene said she had been in the "business" since last September but worked in a department store in Brooklyn.
Martie was glad she had on her wedding suit, and the new hat that had been in a department store on Sixth Avenue yesterday afternoon.
She went into a department store, leaving Teddy to watch the coach on the sidewalk, and got him the gun and the book.
Martie was in a department store, Teddy beside her, when a woman came smiling up to her, and laid a hand on her arm.
Didn't you sign a confession that you had taken goods from a department store?
Did you try to get Miss Gingles a position in a department store?
Here Mr. Short produced a paper purporting to be a confession that Ella Gingles had made, when accused of theft in a department store.
I believe at this time, sir, she was working at Sterling's Department Store in Fort Worth after leaving Leonard Bros.
Morning and girl were gray with cold as Win hovered before the vast expanse of plate glass which made of Peter Rolls's department store a crystal palace.
The male "assistants" did no worse than call her by her Christian name (they must have caught it from Sadie), and that was no cause of offence to girl from man in a department store.
She was not yet quite sure what you did in America, for she had talked to none of her very few acquaintances about the need she had to look for work in a department store.
They smell around to see what goes on behind the scenes in a department store, and drop on us if they can.
The unequal opportunity which it affords to department store employees as a body is a conspicuous drawback.
As a result, the instruction would become abstract and theoretical, with the major portion of the effort limited to a continuation of elementary school subjects taught with reference to their application to department store work.
She was not employed at that time at the downtown area of Fort Worth, but rather at a suburb store, Cox's Department Store.
How long--did you know then how long she had been employed at Cox's Department Store?
The physician had kept even the department store detective at a distance.
But the boys scoffed at the idea of the stranger having anything to do with the men who robbed the department store safe, or anything to do with Billy Long.
Do you suppose he had anything to do with the robbery at Stresch & Potter's department store?
Or it may be that the girl from the country is making a second or third visit to the city and has been invited to again visit the kind and elderly lady who met her in a department store and so kindly cared for her upon her last visit.
She worked about a year with a prominent firm, then in a department store.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "department store" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
