Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voyages of A. L. Sammann are now history, but he dissipated look on A.L.s face isn't history. He really take these weekends seriously. The late pronunciations of Abe Zaleznik's name will make table talk for years. You should furnish everyone with the practically correct way, Abe. The way Chuckie Schroeder and Bruno Tiz to buzzing about their next term resident we are expecting great things from the dealers...
...Venus Fixers who furnish the air force and infantry with lists of Italian art treasures which must be spared "if possible." These non-targets are rated ac cording to age, preservation and reputation of the maker (buildings like St. Peter's in Rome get top billing: three stars). The Venus Fixers approve expenditures for rebuilding (20,000,000 lire in Sicily) and get the restoration started. In charge is the U.S. Army's Lieut. Colonel Ernest Theodore DeWald...
...authenticity of the authorship, I can upon demand furnish at least 1,500 sworn (and swearing) witnesses, each more willing than the next to substantiate my testimony. . . . The original plan was considered too lenient. I am at present engaged in the composition of a new memorandum [and] the loopholes in the first will be plugged. From where I sit, it looks like the only way a G.I. will leave this theater to go home is if his family claims the body, after...
Designed to furnish oil to U.S. troops in Alaska, it had never achieved much stature except in Lieut. General Brehon Somervell's Army Service Forces. The Truman Committee had called the $134,000,000 collection of oil wells, refinery and pipeline "inexcusable": long before it was completed, Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes had said it should be junked...
...myself: i.e., only 400 francs for room, 135 francs for lunch and dinner, about 200 francs in necessary tips, except before dinner when I invited two business friends to the room for a drink. Somebody had given me a bottle of vermouth and the headwaiter assured me he could furnish a bottle of gin to make some Martinis. When the waiter arrived with the gin he asked me if I would mind paying for it in cash. I said I would be glad to and how much was it? 2000 francs! So this little bit of hospitality cost me just...