Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caretaker, John J. Hickey, told police yesterday morning that the house had been entered through a rear first floor window the night before. Dunning, who was spending a vacation at Cutout, was summoned back to Boston to determine if anything was stolen...
...remark. In the yellow-floored, blue-walled shop were 20 barber chairs upholstered in pastel-blue leather. Behind them stretched long strips of mirror topped by germ-killing lamps. Above each chair, from the sound-proofed ceiling, shone a spotlight. On the small pink-&-blue mezzanine in the rear there were two more chairs for children, surrounded by giraffe-shaped palm pots...
...Rear-Engined Ballyhoo. On the first day of its New York showing, Preston Tucker's rear-engined, carburetor-less (fuel injection) Tucker '48, once called the Torpedo, drew some 15,000 paying spectators (40? for adults, 25? for children) to Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. After two weeks on the market, Tucker's $20,000,000 stock issue was about 80% subscribed. Designer Tucker, en route to Italy to negotiate a manufacturing tie-in with Isotta-Fraschini, said production would not get under way until January at the earliest. Nevertheless, fascinated by such features...
Disk jockeys at Eliot House will have a new place to spin platters when workmen get through current alterations financed from the University grant of $6000 for House improvements. A record storage room is being created out of a closet in the rear of the Library, while nearby a sound proofed room will provide sufficient quiet for disk enthusiasts...
...there was an embarrassment. Evita, dressed for the first time in black, picked at lobster, watched the floor show. At the show's end two men inside a camel's skin go through various antics under the spotlight; the climax comes when the camel's rear presents a bouquet to a woman spectator. Evita was selected for the honor. She was not amused, stalked out to the sniggers of other diners...