Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dropping "The Great Gatsby" on the rug, Vag walked over to the mantlepiece, poured out an inch of Southern Comfort, and proposed a toast. "Here's to you, F. Scott Fitzvag," he murmured, downing the 100 proof liquid. Something about bananas and refrigerators was coming out of the radio, and seated again the chair, his ears turning a dull crimson, Vag began to see the happy scenes...
...mused, and. . . "Reading Period," he screamed to the squirrels and pigeons. It wasn't too late. He started off rapidly toward Widener, kept on past it, dodged across Mass. Avenue, bounded down Holyoke Street and raced up the stairs to his room. "The Great Gatsby" was on the rug where he had left it, and there was an inch of amber left in the bottle on the mantlepiece. F. Scott Fitzvag held the bottle up to the light, proposed a toast, and slowly let the liquid run into the glass with the Harvard Seal on the side...
Instead of thrusting pins into a dummy or crossing her eyes in a victim's presence, she simply mutilated his photograph. She removed curses by the same dreary system: applicants for de-hexing were told to put a torn photograph under a rug, with the feet pointing to the door so the hex could walk...
...native girls and native rights, once jailed him for three months), extreme poverty (failing to sell the pictures he sent back to Paris, he had to count on occasional presents from his Paris friends). But he used the mingled depths of the Pacific sky and sea and the Persian-rug colors of the land to turn his escape from civilization into a wonderful enrichment of Western culture...
...trip, thanks to fellow-passenger Lord Beaverbrook, had been dandy. "He's such a nice man," said the Viscountess, "and he took such good care of me. He . . . kept giving all kinds of orders like 'Get a rug for Her Ladyship' and things like that. It was almost like old times when one had servants traveling with...