Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swampy Vermilion Parish, La. took out a $25 war bond in his name, planned to send it to him; the residents of Newton, Mass, sent $1,300 worth of bonds to him "and the Russian people"; and 76-year-old S. Kent Costikyan, Manhattan's rug king, proposed in a letter to the New York Times that somebody give him some sort of honorary degree...
...behind this military rug cutting was Captain Glenn Miller, late recruit from the swank hotel ballrooms and broadcasting studios. Embarking on an earnest crusade to put swing on the U.S. parade ground, Captain Miller first taught his boys to swing the military classics. Then he militarized a few items like St. Louis Blues and the Jersey Bounce. Finally he got the urge to touch up some of the late great John Philip Sousa's scores with hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies...
Sleepy Report. In Oakland, Calif., Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. Gero were reported to have slept while the rug and floor blazed under their bed, slept while the fire apparatus roared up to the house, while the firemen piled in, while they fought the blaze and put it out, and left, carefully locking the door behind them...
...Hell it is exclaimed some 70-odd student officers of the Communications School as they cut the rug over at the Phillips Brooks House last Monday night. "Not when you've got an orchestra like the one giving out here now," Yes, brethren, weez has got us an orchestra...
...edged forward on the rug, trying to peer into the crystal ball. "Go on, Shad," I said. "What next...