Word: framer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rehabilitation. The journal Voprosi Istorii (official framer of Soviet history) announced that nine outstanding Red army leaders condemned by Stalin in that period had been fully rehabilitated to the honored though posthumous status of "comrades." Included among them were three marshals of the Soviet Union and a number of top commissars, most of them heroes of the civil war whose exploits were once on every lip. No nine names could have been better chosen to evoke the black tale of intrigue and assassination in the years before World...
...framed square of silk, feather duster, long brushes, inkstones and cakes of Chinese ink, Yokoyama works from memory on paintings that bring from $750 to $3,000 each. When the work goes badly, he jabs at the silk with angry brush strokes, then roars to his silk framer, crouched in the adjoining room, to bring a fresh frame. A perfectionist, Yokoyama says: "Each work I start, I tell myself that this is going to be my masterpiece." Only when he is satisfied does he press his name seal...
Strike It Rich's producer Walter Framer replied by registering "surprise" that "we are being subjected to an attack for helping people who deserve help." His pressagent, Sydney DuBroff, indicated that the show would fight the proposed licensing and stated that "we have courts for the adjudication of such problems." Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive Co. announced that it had checked Framer's books and records and "found everything in order," but was, nevertheless, asking for another audit immediately. NBC, which carries Strike It Rich on radio, and CBS, which carries it on TV, assured newsmen that they were busy...
...framer of this apothegm is the proprietor of both a good restaurant and an unusual personality. He is the self-styled Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, once a Brooklyn-born orphan boy named Harry Gerguson, who spent half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...