Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lanky, gable-nosed, Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings, proprietor of an elegant Madison Avenue furniture studio, is the author of a peg-legged, web-seated chair, which some fellow experts consider the finest of its kind. Robsjohn-Gibbings (pronounced the way it is spelled) has spent years fashioning tricky, glass-topped tables and elegant gadgets for the Park Avenue trade. Now he wants to design furniture for the workingman. A learned, articulate, 38-year-old U.S. citizen who settled in Manhattan in 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings has made a careful study of furniture from Ancient Egypt to the present. "The Greeks...
...Peg-topped dresses with skirts cleverly draped to relieve their skimpy...
...Coats that are peg-topped or spool-shaped...
...Mumblety-Peg. Carving sets, pocketknives and manicure implements cannot be made after this month...
...second. After Berg grounded out in advancing Clay to third, Clco O'Donnell sent his second hit to left field to score Clay. Gil Whittemore walked and Bart Harvey drove in O'Donnell when the Purple's shortstop errored on his grounder. When the third baseman missed the peg Whittemore raced home and Harvey pulled up at third. Mort Waldstein flied out to end the frame and the Crimson scoring...