Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brestel mastering 31 of the 87 ports required but stopped deciding what the "Madagals" of Keonjhargorh like for breakfast. "Tiny" Long racing around town trying to furnish and provision up that 21 room mansion, he, Max Kirschbaum, Russ parker, Art Marx, and a dozen others are planning to occupy next term...
...have set up an information staff to answer your questions about New York-its shopping centers, its recreations, its many restaurants-or any other information it is in our power to furnish, whether about the city, ourselves, or anything else. Representatives of our Educational and Club Bureaus will be on hand to talk to teachers and club people, and on the mezzanine is a quiet reading room where anyone interested can find bound volumes of all our magazines available for any "looking backward" he may want...
Other items required included a car--preferably a convertible coupe--and a corsage. A ride in a taxi was acceptable, but not enthusiastically received. Dance committees did not then request, "No Corsages Please." Often even a date to see a play required a man to furnish flowers. Gardenias (two or more) were commonplace. An orchid was more or less expected at a formal dance...
Music to accompany the dancing couples will be provided by Ken Reeves and his popular orchestra. The band's female vocalist will furnish an additional eyeful to climax the evening's entertainment...
...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...