Word: tablecloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luxury swimming pool under the palm-trees gives an atmosphere of Waikiki to this romantic spot. Wrestling shows almost every night. Heavy couvert, but a season's membership will insure a clean tablecloth and a well-guarded hat, gloves, and cane, without having to tip the boys...
...glaze tiles, vases and urns that won him the reputation of the country's greatest potter. Richer Poor canvases were on view in a one-man show in Manhattan's Rehn Galleries last week where landscapes, still lifes, and in particular a figure study entitled "The Pink Tablecloth" won high hosannas...
...they are not as fussy as Willie Hoppe, who used to carry his own balls of Zanzibar ivory, or Walter Lindrum, an Australian professional who arrived in the U. S. last month bringing his own baize tablecloth for a series of exhibition matches, most foreign players at least carry their own chalk and several favorite cues. Poensgen brought something else as well: a grave, austere confidence which Van Belle lacked. It was this lack rather than the fact that Van Belle was playing in the U. S. for the first time, or the fact that he had often played Poensgen...
...last week's dinner, Jackie Cooper fell asleep on the bosom of Cinemactress Dressier. Director King Vidor drew a checkerboard on the tablecloth, played lump-sugar checkers with Cinemactress Eleanor Boardman (Mrs. King Vidor), beat her. Remarks...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico. Bands crashed. Natives cheered. For them it was a double holiday?the 58th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and the second visit to Porto Rico by a U. S. President. At the City Hall the President was presented with a large tablecloth on which had been embroidered elaborate flower designs. Governor Roosevelt had asked President Hoover to leave behind his top-hat and tailcoat because few Porto Ricans own such ceremonial attire. By the President's compliance, everybody was in informal linens...