Word: redwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl...
...Surprise Party's platform is redwood trimmed with "nutty" pine; its emblem is a kangaroo for Leap Year (see cut). She has a song which goes: Vote for Gracie To "win the Presidential racie. . . . Vote for Gracie, Keep voting all day long...
...outsider knows, no Harkness intimate will tell the total of Edward Harkness' philanthropies during his lifetime, but it is reckoned at no less than $100,000,000. Mr. Harkness gave money to save California's redwood trees, to feed and clothe victims of flood, drought, un employment, to archeology, to museums, hospitals, medical research. He made gifts to progressive Sarah Lawrence College (see p. 66), to progressive Swarthmore College. But the bulk of his great fortune went to conservative old schools that he knew and loved well...