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...this is really a piece of furniture to beat all. Surrounding the keg is a mahogany tray. If you should happen to spill any fine old scotch, it would undoubtedly be sopped up by the fine old mahogany. No more dirty new sponges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus' Gadget Puts New Zest into Zombies | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...three acres of deck space. A walk around the Queen's promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded up during the war, were unveiled again. Both public and staterooms were paneled in woods from every continent-from beech to rich mahogany, rare and exotic betula and petula, zebrano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Queen | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...many years and you've never been a gold digger in your life. I just don't think you've got it in you. So when you go accepting expensive ice from this guy I know there's something up. So you might as well spill it, baby. ... All right, dear, you've given me your answer by indirection....By the way, I hear you're adopting two more children. How old are they this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gossipist | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Anticlericalism plays into Protestantism's hands, but I found no Protestant who approved of its methods. For while the movement is so far largely against priests and hierarchy, it could easily spill over into antireligion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Twilight in Italy | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Plagued by an early spill, the Varsity mile relay team trailed Cornell and Princeton last Saturday night in a four college contest at the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden. It was their first setback of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Outruns Yale, Trails Cornell, Tiger In Millrose Relay Test | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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