Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affectation. It includes wearing shiny, patched clothes and shocking dinner parties with sardonic comments. Married to Manhattan Socialite Vera Cravath Larkin, daughter of the late, great lawyer Paul Cravath, he avoids society, but pops into it every once in a while, throws himself into a chair like an old rug, often turns out to be the lion of the party...
Webbed and Woven. For two hundred years the Robertson "kinfolks," who number about 1,000, have inhabited the valleys of the ruddy Twelve Mile River and the glassy Keowee, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. They are "intermarried, webbed and woven like a rug...
Basis of the indictment was Atwill's denials that he had allowed such goings-on as wild revels by unclad guests on a tiger skin rug, showings of bawdy movies...
...conventional figure in rug designs, from Shiraz to Sears, Roebuck, is the tadpole-shaped fistprint of a moppet. This-according to Persian legend-is why: a rugmaker one day reprimanded his infant son for playing recklessly among his dye pots. The child, incensed, brought down his dripping little fist on a nearby rug. Regarding the curly imprint of the tot's clenched hand, the artist gave the Persian version...
Miss Annie Rooney (Small; United Artists) is that old rug-cutter Shirley Temple, now 13, brown-haired, weighing 102 lb., standing a fraction over five feet, and desperately trying to maneuver through girlhood without losing her cinemappeal. It is tough sledding. Shirley Temple fans will have to suffer such inanities as Annie Rooney until she gets her growth...