Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most common difficulty, of course, is housebreaking. He remembers a gentleman who bought a small pup at the same time he was refurnishing his house with new carpets. The first day he came home, he found a small wet spot in the middle of the new living room rug. Seizing the quivering dog, he threw it out the window. Luckily, the window was on the first floor and the dog was unhurt. When the man returned the second day, he discovered a new puddle. Outraged, he again tossed the puppy out the window. By the third day he hoped...
Fire of undetermined origin swept Emerson Hall B last night causing extensive damage to a wall, furniture, books, rug, and an oil painting. Fire officials said that the painting was "valuable" and damage to it was "serious." Cause was due to a frayed elec-lamp cord. --from the CRIMSON, January...
...across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy & Co., I. Miller (shoes) and Nelson Rockefeller...
...housing boom, now being choked off by the new credit controls, had proved a bonanza for many a supplier. Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., whose rug sales had slumped last year, managed to increase its net an incredible 30-fold from $61,500 to $1.9 million by merely doubling its sales. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., which boosted its nine-month net six-fold to $4 million, declared an extra dividend of 50?. So did American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., biggest in the plumbing fixtures trade. American Radiator's net hit an alltime high of $17.7 million for the first...
...Queen Mary's needlepoint rug...