Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have a Rug. As he spoke, Adams' cheery color, recently heightened by a brief New England fishing trip, slowly paled. His voice clipped on. "Early in the year 1954, Mr. Goldfine came to visit us, and he said to me, 'You ought to have a rug on that floor which is less shabby than the one that you have, and I would like to send you one. I'd like to get you one.' I said to him, 'I have no use for a rug of this size.' It is a rather large room...
...receive more than one rug? Adams: "I think there were a couple of small mats...
Through the years, as Bernard Goldfine gave, Adams received. Without seeming to recognize the implications of his relationship, Adams took advantage of Goldfine's offer of a rug, a few mats, a coat, some cloth that he had made into a suit. The hotel rooms were a great convenience, and so were the dining facilities at the hotels. These gifts were hard to refuse, partly because of friendship, partly because, as a careful man with his own dollar, Adams could not bring himself to refuse the lavish insistence of a big spender. And when Bernie Goldfine asked Adams...
...little balance in their relationship with the free-spending Goldfine, once gave Goldfine a gold watch and at other times some of Mrs. Adams' oil paintings. But newsmen were more interested in a rumor (it was true) that Goldfine bought the Adamses a $2,400 Oriental rug from Macy's, and had a tailor make Adams a vicuna coat worth at least $500 retail (wholesale cost to Goldfine: about...
...Explains Heinz's Heinz: "After all, it doesn't take long to think of Stuart Davis. He's the dean." Painter Davis created his own design, evolved an ingenious rig that allowed him to swing the huge canvas over a wooden roller like a rug hung up on a clothesline. He worked six months from his first sketch to the completed work, produced the largest single canvas he has ever done...