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| − | * '''Woolworth:''' a chain of low-price stores; opened in England at the time and deridied by the conservative press for introductincg 'Amercanism', consumerism, and 'luring' women into | + | * '''Woolworth:''' a chain of low-price stores; opened in England at the time and deridied by the conservative press for introductincg 'Amercanism', consumerism, and 'luring' women into decadence and selfindulgence. |
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0399&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0399&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:05, 6 September 2018
- Woolworth Building: a skyscraper in New York City (792 ft. tall), commissioned by Frank W. Woolworth → Tim Finnegan supposedly helped to build New York's skyscrapers
- Woolworth: a chain of low-price stores; opened in England at the time and deridied by the conservative press for introductincg 'Amercanism', consumerism, and 'luring' women into decadence and selfindulgence.
- Sir William Walworth: Lord Mayor and one of the Nine Worthies of London
- wall
- Walworth Road: site of a Jewish synagogue in Dublin (now a Jewish museum)
- Waal: Dutch distributary of the Rhine; also a village and district in southern Holland
