Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York adventures began, after five days of entertainment in Washington (TiME, Nov. 28), as he rode from the Battery to City Hall in an open car (drawing a street crowd of 200,000 and a flattering paper shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
...honor of Scientist Dr. Hidelci Yukawa, Nobel Prizewinner in physics who is now teaching at Columbia University, Emperor Hirohito whittled out a bit of Japanese verse: / am very pleased to see The news in this morning's paper...
...being an Oriental country, we luckily have no qualms about "losing face" over a political situation. Any face that we might have saved was lost with the State Department's unprecedented white paper on China. Our Chinese policy has been a ghastly flasco, partly through our mistaken and partly beyond our control. The Communists have us just where they want us, and recognition is the best...
...have been reading the criticisms that have been heaped upon you by some of the Boston newspapers, and particularly the serial articles in the Boston Globe which I have always considered the fairest and best football paper in Boston. Perhaps I have some prejudice because of my friendship and admiration for Mel Webb...
...museums and private collectors in the U.S., which had been arranged to coincide with publication of a handsome, expensive and definitive study of Fabergé and all his works: Peter Carl Fabergé (Batsford; $35). The exhibition included everything from coffee pots to vodka cups, from imperial seals to paper knives, and from jeweled flowers in crystal vases to a green jade Buddha that nodded its head and wagged its ruby tongue...