Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waste paper baskets proved ineffective in stemming the cold shouldered flood as it ripped away ceilings and laid a slippery coat down Hollis stairs...
...Pauley (who had said he 18st $100,000 in paper profits) had made more than $1,000,000 in commodities, and had failed to tell all to the committee...
...Frankfurt Betrayal of German Unity," screamed one Russian zone paper. "A Black Day for Germany," said another. In Berlin, plans were laid for a meeting of the Soviet-controlled All German People...
...could paint more," Hopper says. "I get sick of reading and going to the movies. I'd much rather be painting all the time, but I don't have the impulse. Of course I do dozens of sketches for oils-just a few lines on yellow typewriter paper-and then I almost always burn them. If I do one that interests me, I go on and make a painting, but that happens only two or three times a year...
Last week, prompted by Hearstlings, prominent citizens gave out statements for symposiums swatting the barflies. Pastors preached in favor of the campaign, and judges anxious to get their pictures in the paper took it for a text in lecturing defendants. As a moral crusade, it was taking its place alongside such other newsless Hearst favorites as antivivisection, anti-cockfighting and the whipping post for wife-beaters. Before it was over, it might even take on some of the trappings of the political campaigns: front-page stories from Washington, front-page editorials, Hearst-written resolutions for passage by American Legion posts...