Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to two front-row seats to "Juno and the Paycock" on opening night, May 6, HDC will provide the newly-acquainted couple with dinner at the China House, dancing at the Oval Room of the Copley, and a chauffer who is prepared to double as chaperon, if the need should arise...
...Kingdom of Denmark these days, the beer bottles must have square labels, because the Government decided that oval ones waste too much paper. In Providence, R. I., stonecutters have refused to cut names into tombstones shipped ready-shaped from Sweden and Finland. And in Britain last week, Food Minister John Strachey told a truly shocked House of Commons that the tea ration might have to be cut, partly because India and Ceylon did not like Government-regulated tea buying...
...hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
With close to thirty men and women walking quietly and carrying placards in a long lazy, oval, five and a quarter hours of picketing the Club 100 ended almost without incident at 12:45 o'clock this morning...
...phone rang in the oval study. It was Mary Jane Truman in Grandview, Mo. with distressing news. Old Mrs. Truman, the President's mother, had fallen from her bed the night before and broken her right...