Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specimen is still lacking to make the collection complete, admitted Rothenberg yesterday. For months he has been passing the Lampoon building, enviously staring at the magnificent wishbone concealed beneath the plumage of a second theskiornia which adorns the Bow Street tile palacer...
...family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction supervised by the five boys...
...sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
...portraits of her husband, Argentina's President Juan Perón, were placed strategically on the walls; new Louis XV furniture was installed in her bedroom. A new floor of shining tile was laid for the main entrance, doors were painted garish green, marble stairs were shined mirror-bright. No one could blame Embassy officials when their bright new decorations became the background for the first jeers that Evita had heard since her European tour began June...
...Croesus-rich Maharaja of Jodhpur, absolute ruler of 2½ million people in the state that gave its name to a kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants...