Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except at the weekly visit-to-the-President level. She is reluctant to go to Washington because: 1) "I work best in the field. . . . I'm just a small-town girl"; 2) "I still think the war is nowhere near over"; 3) her husband Julius, a well-known rug dealer, and all her roots are firmly embedded in Manhattan concrete...
Sued for Divorce. Johnny Weissmuller, 39, thrice-married swimmer-turned-cinema-Tarzan; by Beryel Laura Scott Weissmuller, 28, San Francisco rug cleaner's daughter, mother of Weissmuller's three; after four years of marriage, her first; in Los Angeles...
Like his father, genial, rugged Bishop Smith, 67, was once an oil operator in his native Pennsylvania. Although he had a wife to support, he later turned to the ministry. "I don't know why," he says. "It is just one of those things." After 23 years of pastoral work (chiefly at Buffalo's fashionable Delaware Avenue Church, Detroit's big Central Church), he was chosen a Bishop, assigned to far-off Bangalore, India. There Bishop Smith diversified his episcopal duties by shooting tigers. The skin of the first tiger that glared back at Bangalore...
...Nahigian Brothers' rug store exhibited a 70-lb. Bible, each of its 31,102 verses handwritten by visitors to Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
...suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized these horse-&-buggyish ardors in the road-sterish form of It, thus provided a racy vehicle for Cinemactress Clara...