Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. A curious woman asked, "Who are you expecting?" A bellhop grinned, said, "A $50,000 bull." Snapped the woman: "You don't have to be nasty." A few minutes later a $50,000 bull named T. T. Regent lumbered out of a truck, waddled up the red rug, was triumphantly installed in a pen in the lobby...
...bedroom had a refrigerator and bar and an oyster-white rug, often littered with phonograph records or clothes. She liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall...
Gertrude Sanford Legendre, 42, peacetime Manhattan socialite and world-touring big-game hunter, was hailed by the Nazis as the "first American woman" captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty...
...Truman was redding up her rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence. At 4:30 p.m. next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went...
...could reason that, after all, he had survived two of Hitler's rug-biting rages: one after the Moscow repulse, one in the 1938 "conquest" of Austria, when his tanks, all dressed up for the Führer's victory parade in Vienna, ran out of gas many miles away. Presumably he could survive a third, if need be. Guderian may also have it in mind that he used to be regarded as one of the "realistic" officers who demanded collaboration with Russia-a fact that might recommend him as a member of some future negotiating committee. Until...