Word: hooverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working on Belgian relief, old Spanish silver, blue and white porcelain. In the dusty antique shops under Manhattan's Third Avenue El, Hoover is a familiar figure today, hunting around for more blue and white porcelain. He cherishes recollections of his Iowa boyhood which suggest some un-Hooverish pictures. "There was Cook's Hill," he writes from his notes. "That was a great long hill where on winter's nights we slid down at terrific pace with our tummies tight to homemade sleds...