Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporters who went out to see Egalitarian Maurice discovered that "Little Moscow," as the villagers call his new home, is actually a small-scale Kremlin. Oaken gates and a six-foot-high stone wall seal off the front; a seven-foot-high wire fence topped by barbed wire barricades the sides. Ten husky guards patrol the approaches, accompanied by a bloodhound and a German police...
...development of the Mexican concha-style is the belt made entirely of nationalistic or heraldic emblems joined with links. Some belts have buckles or clasps of an ingenious and occasionally coy sort, such as lock-and-key or hinges like the sort found on heavy oaken doors...
...days, the actor lay in state in a Manhattan funeral parlor. A crowd of fans estimated at 10,000, most of them women, waited in line to file past his oaken bier. Greying Playwright Odets, himself a repentant ex-Communist, came in, looked down, turned away to bury his face in his hands. Out in the street two men began slugging each other; one of them, someone reported, had called Garfield a Communist. But Jules Garfinkle was past caring. "He came like a meteor." said Rabbi Louis Newman at the Reformed Hebrew service, "and like a meteor he departed...
Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...
...impressed with the six-foot fire places, bounded by great oaken pillars jutting into the room. The window shades he described as "dark red silk, hanging from solid brass, and the window seat below is of a like color in plush." Bed rooms were furnished "In the regulation style: a heavy braze bedstead, a bureau, and a dressing case with a big swinging mirror...