Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tried out his new "throne," a handsomely carved, high-legged walnut chair specially designed to seat him at eye level with those who file by him at official handshaking functions. Terribly tiring are all White House receptions, but worst is the diplomatic reception, social high light of the Washington winter season. With the aid of the "Siege Perilous"-so dubbed by Washington wits-Franklin Roosevelt came paint-fresh through the exhausting ordeal...
Having said his say, John Lewis, still pale, sat all that afternoon out at his huge walnut desk in the palatial United Mine Workers building, drumming fingers steadily on his desk, speaking gruffly and seldom...
This week Manhattan's Downtown Gallery displayed Steig's latest humorous accomplishments: 14 small, irresistible figures carved in mahogany, walnut, orange, pear and apple wood. He began doing them three years ago when he married and moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...
...traveling, Paderewski lives in his 26-room villa Riond Bosson at Morges, Switzerland. Once the property of Fouche, Napoleon's Minister of Police, Riond Bosson overlooks Lake Geneva towards towering Mont Blanc. Paderewski has at different times bought half-a-dozen farms and country estates, including a large walnut ranch in California. But Riond Bosson has for 40 years been the nearest thing to a permanent home that Paderewski has had. There, with his sister...
...wholesale chains are objects of mingled horror and envy. Columbia's president draws his share of that feeling. But Judson loses no sleep over what his less successful rivals think of him. Looking like a Daily Worker caricature of a capitalist, he sits behind an enormous French walnut desk in Manhattan's Steinway Building, continuously smoking big Havana cigars. Says he: "Managers are employes of artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look at Employe Judson's books (on the theory...