Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rug-Cutting...
...shellac is the big item (15-25%) of each platter. Angle for the stab: shellac comes from India, which seems to be in quite a jam right now. Not only that, but shellac is hot stuff in war stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play their old platters down to a nub for all Donald Nelson cares, Only bugle at the funeral is that shellac in records can be reclaimed; maybe the jive jerks will be able to turn in old disks for new ones...
Unintentionally hilarious scene: Mowgli enters the hunter's home to buy his "tooth" and discovers a host of his jungle pals-stuffed. Pointing to a fine bear (now a rug) with whom he used to fish, he asks in astonishment: "What happened to him?" "My father shot it," replies the hunter's daughter. Says the wolf-boy: "We missed him six moons ago. He was Baloo's cousin...
...other blot is apt to frighten subjects who are unhappy or unstable, but "normal" people merely call it a bearskin rug or an animal's skin. Schizoid personalities sometimes see a man's face in the dark shadows, but sexually frustrated women see a gorilla or some other strong masculine figure, chasing them...
...strung a guard of 27 policemen around the Japanese Embassy, whose staff is awaiting exchange. After Viscount Hisaakira Kano, ex-manager of London's Yokohama Specie Bank, told a reporter the atrocity story was "so much propaganda," Scotland Yardmen bundled him off with one suitcase and a fur rug to the Isle of Man internment camp...