Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artistic atmosphere of the Manhattan shop, with its grey oak panels, pigskin walls and the de Chirico mural, is going to come high to Scheiner clients. A sack suit by Scheiner & Co. costs $175 up, evening clothes...
Derwood W. Lockard 2G, of Oak Park, Illinois, assistant in Anthropology; Francis A. Young, instructor in Secondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia, assistant in Education; Walter E. Arnoldi, of Richmond Hill, New York, assistant in Mechanical Engineering...
...built in Washington by the New Deal. Justly proud of his massive limestone masterpiece, which sprawls over two blocks and has twelve wings to insure outside light to every office, he invited Washington newshawks in to view its wonders as soon as he got himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which they described as "not quite big enough for a swim," a bath mat embroidered with a brown donkey and the confident inscription: "We are here...
...cannot graft them on our system any more than you can graft a Siberian crab apple to an oak. . . . They are exotic." Most of the audience had grown some fruit, and they knew Squire Baldwin has also pruned off the British oak its exotic topmost leaf Edward VIII. They raised lusty cheers for the Prime Minister and returned the mellow words with which he left them: "God bless...
...time Bob Feller was 11 he was playing with American Legion teams. Father Feller, well aware by this time that his son would justify his hopes, decided to equip him with a team of his own. He scraped a Feller wheatfield, organized a team called the Oak Views on which, when he was not pitching, young Bob Feller was the shortstop. In 1934, pitching for Oak View, Bob Feller struck out 161 adult opponents in ten games. That autumn he and his father went to the World Series. Said Bob Feller after the games: "I can do as well...