Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning to cash in on the lucrative Negro market (TIME, July 5). First motels for Negroes have proved so successful that four more have been opened for Negro travelers in Florida, Kentucky and Alabama this year, with a fifth just completed in Atlanta with air conditioning, TV and tile baths...
Marlon thought for awhile that he would like to enter the ministry. Talked out of that, he spent the summer of 1943 as a tile fitter in a drain factory (he was turned down for the draft because of a trick knee). In the fall he went to New York to live with sister Frances, then studying painting at New York's Art Students League. After four days as an elevator operator at Best's department store (he quit because it embarrassed him to call out things like "lingerie''). Marlon went to study dramatics with Stella...
...passed on from mother to daughter. As told by women of the Sare tribe, however, the legend differs slightly. They believe that the first woman climbed down from heaven on a beanstalk, on her arrival was already wearing the plugs given to her in heaven. To be strong, fer tile and wise like their first ancestor, Sara women also wear the ugly plugs...
...Elastic tile...
...most remarkable statement was made concerning "The Shoulder Trade" . . . "Amateur decorators . . . laid 50% (500 million sq. ft.) of all the asphalt tile, enough to cover the entire state of Oregon...