Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unsold Rug. The zoo-odd Italians, including Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had gathered to hear Zellerbach speak at a luncheon celebrating the second anniversary of the Marshall Plan, expected only a good meal and some of the pleasantly flattering remarks customary on such occasions. The familiar praise, however, was concentrated at the beginning of the speech. After that, Zellerbach's clipped, nasal voice began to tick off in unusual fashion some of the things that he thought were wrong with Italy...
Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, which will be auctioned off as the Queen's own contribution to Britain's dollar shortage (TIME, Feb. 6), got a queenly sendoff on its American tour. Arriving on the liner Queen Mary, it was displayed for three days in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to 30,000 gaping visitors. Then it was packed into its satin-lined chest, shipped off to Ottawa. By the time its transcontinental travels end in Baltimore, in June, the royal rug will have been on view in 22 U.S. and Canadian cities...
...stage to the schools. As director of Moscow University, she motors in a long black Zis (the U.S.S.R.'s copy of the Packard) from her husband's Kremlin quarters, dresses in severe, mannish suits, is served by two housemaids, rates an office with a thick Persian rug, a mahogany desk, a daily vaseful of roses, an ornate silver samovar...
...Bergler has developed his ideas about writing and writers from the case histories of 36 writers who felt wretched enough to go to him for treatment. What Bergler may not clearly see is that in developing his interesting argument, he is performing a party trick rather like pulling a rug out from under his own feet. By the book's end, the reader has been taught to wonder what compulsion makes a man set out to explain most of the world's literature as just an infant's whimper for a bountiful teat...
Passes at Horace. The Peabody girls were very poor and very genteel. Mother Peabody held her head high because her family had once been rich, though now she had to roll back the parlor rug and teach the neighbors' children when she wasn't brought to bed with her own (she also bore three sons and another daughter who died in infancy). Father Nathaniel was a dentist, a kindly potterer and whittler who never learned how to stand up to his energetic womenfolk. By any standards of the day, his daughters made their marks...