Word: studdedness
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Decorated Town. In return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank...
To the ignoscenti, however, a word or two of explanation may still be necessary. Let it be said, then, that Samuel Goldwyn and Friends have taken a little but justly-famous Thurber short story from a "New Yorker" of a few years back about mild, henpecked Walter Mitty and his...
The agreements were studded with escape clauses. If tariff cuts caused "serious injury" to U.S. domestic producers, they could be suspended or withdrawn. Any nation short of dollars could still resort to exchange controls, import quotas and other dollar-saving devices. In a world where dollars are short everywhere, that...
They were given 3,500,000 arid, mesa-studded acres in Arizona and New Mexico; a reservation which was gradually expanded until it was almost three times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy...
They could not, unfortunately, deflate the "gaseous metaphysics" of Nazi doctrine, even in its final Götterdammerung convulsions. Martin Bormann, faithful to the end, pumped the Führer full of false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a...