Word: persiane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made a short talk on the technique of Oriental rug making. (The test of a good Persian rug: at least 100 knots per square inch...
Broadway Star Mary (South Pacific) Martin, topped by a haircut that resembles a scrap of Persian lamb, stole the show at a Manhattan benefit for an animal hospital. Though her own dog was home sick, she picked up a perfect understudy-Coky, a miniature French poodle with a hairdo to match...
...achieve her plan, Persia proposes to spend a total of $650 million, an estimated 35% to 40% of which will be spent abroad. The bulk of the development cash will come from Persian government royalties from the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Anglo-Iranian last year paid Persia some $35 million in royalties, but a new pipeline to be built from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to Tripoli in Lebanon, under a deal between Anglo-Iranian, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum, is expected to let Anglo-Iranian boost output and raise royalties to as much as $50 million next...
...live Jawaharlal Nehru) and "Sher-i-Kashmirl" (Long live the Lion of Kashmir-Sheikh Abdullah). Merchants took advantage of a good opportunity, strung their rugs from house windows for all to see and buy; some erected huge banners across the river, with slogans like "Welcome from Ali Mohamed-best Persian and Kashmiri carpets...
Petrillo threw out that solution. Last week he staged a showdown at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza hotel. There, Pianist Victor Borge, a member of both Petrillo's union and A.G.V.A., has been burlesquing opera-singing and making fun of music in general. Petrillo was not amused. He sent Borge a terse telegram: leave the A.G.V.A., or play without an orchestra. Borge meekly complied. Said he: "It is easier for me to get along without the A.G.V.A. than to do without an orchestra...