Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle and the chickens back home on the farm. At the President's press conference, a reporter asked whatever happened to his threat to hop a train and carry the Fair Deal issues back to the people. Well, said the President, that one was always just on the shelf and maybe it wouldn't be necessary...
...classics, except for Richard HI, stayed primly on the shelf. The experiments never got off the side streets. Box office was inclined to be moody. Hollywood had not been so tightfisted about Broadway in years: its most sizable purchase was Home of the Brave...
...Astaire routine features a shelf-full of dancing shoes: trick photography at its grandest of course, but Astaire's grimaces when he sees a circle of shoes dancing on the floor, are enough to make the show worth seeing. Aside from a couple of Gershwin revivals, the music is no great shakes, but who cares about music when Fred Astaire is capering around the screen...
...family's 85-year-old store is both an art shrine where collectors and plain shoppers may browse in peace, and a smart shop where a bride may order everything from her china, glassware and sterling to her custom-tailored furniture and kimonos. Gump's will give shelf room to a $12.50 piece of California pottery-if it is esthetically good-alongside a $1,800 piece of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and encourages its customers to do the same...
Benny Sills, owner of the clothing store, estimated loss at $8,000. The thieves cleared one entire shelf of suits and had started on another before they left. They also took a new shipment of white tuxedoes as well as the store's complete stock of seersuckers...