Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...era, the living room is no longer a place to talk, read or just sit in. Last week in Manhattan, Bloomingdale's unveiled this model room, that features six theaterlike chairs, each with its end table for drinks, food and ashtrays. When the TV program is over, the chairs can be pushed back against the wall and disguised as living-room sofas. If TV palls, a curtain behind the set conceals a screen for home movies. In case home movies should pall, a small puppet theater-under the television set-can be pulled out and put to work...
Carnegie used to order Dewar's Scotch whiskey in 50 or 60-gallon casks. Reporters, touring the wine cellar, found pigeonholes marked Sparkling Moselle, Champagne, and Marsala, now empty. The wine bottles, like the era, were long since gone. Looking back, that past day now seemed like an era of happy irresponsibility, when no man had to account for his riches-though, like Carnegie, some of the wealthy, e.g., Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald, had indeed accounted for theirs in handsome gifts to charity, art and education. Ever since the Widow Carnegie died in 1946 (Carnegie...
Heaman stated at the meeting that the college could stave off the new era-longer than the other Ivy schools because its unique compulsory charge for board saves money for the room-tidying department...
...does not feed them. Bess Truman tried cutting the staff (which runs between 25 and 30), gave up because the housework didn't get done. Feeding the help, plus the family and friends, meant that Truman must pay for about 2,000 meals a month. In the Roosevelt era the monthly food bill sometimes soared to $7,000; Bess Truman has cut it to about $2,000. On quiet nights with the family, Harry Truman often gets leftovers...
...woman who wears her 50s with an air of long-faced gravity, Cissy learned her business the hard way: by getting trimmed the first time out. She paid $500 for a would-be Hildegarde of the pre-jazz era, only to discover, after the act had flopped, that the entertainer's usual price was $50. Now when Cissy sallies into Manhattan each year to forage for her annual purchases (up to $250,000 worth) of artistic merchandise (Rubinstein, Heifetz, et al.), New York managers jovially call to their secretaries to lock up the safe. Recently, when a drunk fell...