Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, having pulled the rug out from under John Foster Dulles (TIME, May 31), sent Anthony Eden into the void, and praised as "skilled diplomacy" his lunching and dining with the Communists in search of kind words and gentle concessions. Aging Winston Churchill still pined for some grand settlement; his admirers worried that this passion might cause his great career to be darkened in its last days, as Franklin Roosevelt's was by Yalta...
...process of making 68 motion pictures, some wonderfully good, some indifferent and some terrible, Bogart has acquired a brassy air of confidence and command. There is a look of real kingliness about him as he stands, painted, costumed and toupeed ("The rug, old boy, the rug"), barking like a strangled seal to warm up his pipes before a tender scene. Veteran Director Michael Curtiz remembers with rueful admiration how Bogie, in the midst of a long, dramatic speech that would have had many an actor sweating with nerves, snarled, during a moment out of mike range...
Firemen raised a ladder to the third floor window and completed the job of extinguishing the fire with fog-spray equipment. One wall and a section of floor were partially burned through, and a couch, a rug, and two pairs of skis were destroyed. Steven C. Swett '56 and William E. Lingelbach '56, residents of the room, estimated personal property damage at about...
...flicked off the set and looked at the other screens. A-23--that lout Reeves was sleeping again. Never cleaned his room until the last minute, and last week the Inspector had found that pile of dirt under the rug. The Master had been reprimanded...
...Henry Schofield, the originator of comparative literature at Harvard. He spent eight years in Grays 38 and liked the room so much that he left a fund preserving it as a home for visiting professors. Since then, Grays 38 has acquired many antique fixtures. Now equipped with an oriental rug, a Victorian bureau and a Colonial bed, it is a strange contrast to its otherwise ordinary setting. JOHN S. WELTNER