Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elvis had the camp P.I.O. issue a denial that he and Anita would marry, then, in a grand finale to his eight weeks of basic training, loped off to the Fort Hood, Texas bivouac area for a hard week of marching and infantry maneuvers-and nights in a pup tent instead of evening passes...
...Manhattan's University Club. Irrepressibly creative Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from ashtrays to sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture, downtown Toledo, motor cars, gasoline stations, the interiors of Pan American Airways' China Clippers, Fifth Avenue store windows, a tent without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first big-time talents to enter the field of industrial design, crowned that phase of his activities with the General Motors Futurama...
...news spread to the remotest corners of Europe, swarms of gypsies got into their cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
...doctors' dismay, she swilled slivovitz, puffed on her Tyrolean pipe and declared that she had never felt better. But last week her condition worsened, and the tribal regency council insisted on moving her to the tent in the town square. "A gypsy queen," they said, "must die in her own tent on a mat of straw...
...themselves. He was at Monty's Place in Worthington the morning a traveling salesman named Jake Moses sat in a "friendly" game and was bluffed out of ten trunks full of shoes. He watched Bones Alverson, a slow-witted farmer, bet his heavily mortgaged land against a traveling tent show, and die of a heart attack when he drew a winning four aces...